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SILVER AND THE

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WEDNESDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

'SABOTAGE ON MACON

During the hearing of evidence before a House of Representatives' committee, Ad expert witness charged that sabotage was rez- ponsible for the loss of the U.S.5. Macon, largest dirigible ever built in America.

At first he was loth to explain his reasons for suspect ing that someone, probably one of the crow, was responsible for the disaster which cost, in addition to the £1,000,000 dead loss in the Macon, the lives of two of her crow. Someone, this witness de clared finally, had poured sold on the girders of the ship. She had crumpled when the strain came on that particular part of her huge skeleton, and the girders had part ed. The chairman of the Com- evidence, mittee hearing this atartled by the charges, announced that he would request, that the Navy should no longer employ "foreigners" In American aircraft or naval vessels. It is difficult to know who he may mean. Ha not mean the Stolne, the Kellys, the MacPhersons or the Olsons; for they are just as good citizens of America as anybody cise. This chairman himself is a Sirovich, and the expert who testified that the Macon was wrecked by "foreigner" is a Knabenshue.

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NO JOKING MATTER

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FEBRUARY 27, 1935.

VIVID FIGURE BACK IN BATTLE

By AN OLD STAGER

THETHER you are among his, It may elect to dree its weird

The Very Idea!

THE WAC CRACK’ER PROCESS

By H. Bogg: Beauty Culturist GIRLS, don't let others

have all the fun!

admirers or his enemics, Mr. without any help from his dynamic Lloyd George must be conceded personality. Or, on the other hand, one quality. His vivid personality, it may aink personal enmities, and Why continue to langufah, un-- aven in his old ago, does enliven co-opt L.G. as a powerful new loved and unsung, when we have any arena into which ho stops. recruit whose personality would

He has suddenly thrown off the undoubtedly renationalise the Na- the means of restoring you to the condition that is the natural herit role of country squire, immersed tional Cabinet to a considerable age of all daughters of Eve? Why in bucelle pursuite and auto-degree. Much will depend, por biography at Churt, and, several haps, on the amount of popular continue to go to bed with a home- restored to something altogether years older than was Joe Chamber steam generated by, L.G.'s Nowy phiz when, overnight, it can bo lala when he launched his famous Deal campaign.

divinely beautiful? tariff reform campaign, has prunced It is not my intention to Intrude back into active politics with his on the delicate ground of discus-

Aftor having buried ourselves in New Deal.

sion whether one or the other would our laboratory for more than two from either the be the wise and proper polley to weeks, we have to-day emerged merits or demerits of his bold but adopt. What I want to emphasise with the latest in beauty treat not too adventurous projects, the is that, with his astute sensibility meats,

It is the Wax Crack'or process. return of L.G. to the big arena to popular tendencies, L.G. probably Is an important and significant realises that the old party group- Inexpensive and simple, it is ovent. Already he has set the wilding is played out. It is not Parlla- within sight of the homelicat face. All you will have to do is to on- chocs flying. The clube and ment that le decadent, but the old lobbles are filled with rumour and post-war generation that knows wax, then pass a hot flat iron over party alignment that ja obsolete. crust your face with ordinary solid prophecy. There Prld that the whole enterprise will not Joseph has arisen, to whom the it.

who

Quilo apart

are those

aro lens than

peter out against the vis inertia revered shibboleths of twenty or By this monna, all wrinkica, how- ever perafatent, and all unduly of political and party circumstance. thirty years ago There are others who assert just meaningless. A generation, more-argo pores and unsightly black- as emphatically that within the over, to whom economics is the soul heads will have been olled up or next few months we shall see the of politics, and to whom a partizan-flattened out.

existing National Cabinet drastical- ship which blindly opposes every- Only one treatroont, 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 merits, is just

most vital force.

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My interest in these now mani-

Billy.

of 18.

Below

Are you suffering from

(a.) Double chin?

Wo have

Nevertheless, the sabotage theory will attract wide Interest and the

With this treatment, we can closest attention of the authorities

wholeheartedly recommend Bogg's 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- In my opinion that fact was Beneficial Balsam for Beefy Bipeds, no joking matter. A great mind oble 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 ming. DONALD-Captain Norman Donald auch thing as coincidence. Is it even the slightest interest in tired of arbitrary party cliques, which is a doadly secret) has been Bogg's Balsam (the formula for passed away at Matilda Hospital.coincidence, Mr. Knabenahue political affairs that for a consider it loudly called a curse on both at 1 a.m. Wednesday, February argues, that one of the two fatali- able time there has been a grow the Montagues and the Capulets of evolved on the principle that it is 27th, 1935. Funeral passes the ties aboard the Macon was

ing conviction on the part of the party allegiances. It will never through an

better to be dead than to waddlo Monument at 4.30 p.m. February Filipino meas boy, known to be of great many people that Parliament take a serious interest in the House

uncomfortable axlat-- Japanema "extraction"? Is it coin-is played out, or at all events, of Commona again until that na- elice. cidence that every single experi- decadent. Ita debates no longer sembly reasserts its ancient status We are always anxious to help ment in America with fighter than engroes public attention to the

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

ench constituency returas its however serious, cannot be so far and potency as fighting units has than Gladstone's time. The old chosen member, not to vote accord gone that it cannot be successfully ended in disaster? When the party game, too, seems played outing to the crack of a party whip, treated by us. Consult us on your Senandoah crashed there was the Traditional political ensigns no but to discuss and decide overy troubles. All your confidences will same hint of treachery. When the longer have their old meaning or problem on its strict merits. We be respected. Akron plunged into the Atlantic appeal. Behind it all lurks,, no often hear the parrot phrase used drawn up a chart for your guld- there was a whisper of more than matter how we may try to blink that it is the duty of an Opposition anice: 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.

(b.) Triple chin? or that a mess If there is one question more because he so loved the country of Insular Instincts, is much strength to be critically alert and ceaselessly

boy in the Macon, obviously hostile to all our Inherited It is the duty of an Opposition (c.) Any other chin? than another which is agitating his fathers, poured acid upon the ened by the imminence of another

Give exact requirements, but in local business men at the mo-girders of the great dirigible while General Election, which must come vigilant. But Procrustaan methods, all cases stating whether you have ment it is the future of silver she flew through a storm, and elther this year or next, by the questions that agitated men's minds

howevor applicable to old-time acquired it from and its likely offect on the plunged with her to death. 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 h jed rise in exchange is; without it is the sort of theory which will pendulum from one extreme to the have no logical or intelligent place

question, creating a feeling of stir the press, and the public, even other, and by the declared policy dangerous to strive,

in economics. It Is futile and uncertainty, which is obviously though it may not be true. Some of Sir Stafford Cripps, and the modern sentiment and modern prob- in face of not good for trade; no-one can times it might be wise to keep such more.

advanced and influential tell whether even higher rates allegations for the private ears of Socialists, if they secure an ade realism the obsolete party divisions lems, to flog back into seeming are to be registered, or whether Government. But, then, that would quate majority in the House of which, in fact, have no longer any some circumstance may oceur to scarcely be democratic..

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

into commission, and press through revolutionary ling value of the dollar. It is

changes free from this unknown factor which is in-

the hampering apron-strings of the Mother of Parliaments. ducing a measure of nervousness and which leads to hesitancy both in commercial and financial circles, Bankers, merchants, and retail dealers alike are all conscious of the uncertainty of the future, which is bad for all SESSES concerned. When it comes to buying, whether of commodities Dr of exchange, the difficulty of deciding on the appropriate mo- ment at which to close the deal becomes greater with every passing day. It is at times like the present that there is

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TOO MUCH OF A MIXTURE

(a.) eating too many choco-

latest or. (b.) sheer cussedness? Do your legs

(n.) deserve the compliment.

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

knocked-kneed they are.

If (b) stato Just how bowed or

What is your exact weight? Do you smash the scales at 200 bat M.P's for that matter, could define corsets.

How many electors, or how many 300 lbs? Also state exact size of the precise difference between a Conservative to-day, a Simonite Liberal, a Samuelite Liberal, a Na- tional Labourite,

Lloyd

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Bro as

Georgian? These badges

or lost to-day as are the old divisional badges of the British Armies In

France.

.

Parliament can reassert itself, as

Many shrewd and unexeltable on- lookers believe, if that happens, we shall forthwith see something like Mussolini or Hitler regimes estab- lished in this country. It might be a Dictatorship of the Left or Right, but one or the other, if a far more sagacious and anfer it might be a Dictatorship of the events were pushed to this pass, It system than any form of dictator- must almost inevitably be

ship, if it adjusts itself to the new It is at this picture that the era. But it must cut out all the Squire of Churt essays to resumo outworn traditions, canse to regard his mantle as the Welsh Wizard of politics as a party game, seize the old. Mr. Lloyd George's gesture is, imagination of the new post-war cipated, away from the Left and earnest, and adjust its outlook to contrary to what many people anti electorate by being in deadly towards the Right flank of our the urgent and pressing needs of The National the moment. It la fatal to fiddle Ministry may reject his overtures. (Continued on next column).

Comment has been made on the variety of nations or races that are bient in the population of the United States. A Harley Street. authority who has been discussing this question of race mixtures finds in it an explanation of the in- stability of family life in America. A rough estinute is that one-third birth, while another third have one of the population are of foreign foreign parent. Hence it would seem to be increasingly dificult to find partners for life with similar ideals, tastes, and outlook, with the result that many marriages must be based mainly or wholly on Hex ever-present danger of defaulla attraction. This, the speaker sug- gested, may explain the poor per- in business and exchange con- centage of durability in America tracts. This danger is inherent compared with other countries. political sectors. where there is, as in Hongkong, The capacity of the United States a fluctuating currency; it be for absorbing large foreign ele- comes emphasised

when astonishing. By some magical pro- into its population is murked. rise or fall is experienced. With conditions ceas, it seems, they become 100 per cont. Americans in a very short as they arc, therefore, it time or do they? But we know is not. to be wondered at from the experience during the .that there should be fresh Great War how many of America's yearnings locally for a stabilised German immigrants remained Ger- dollar. This sentiment is even man 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 fore some the Atlantic. That, indeed. Is the us belleve. Blood is thicker than years ago, ranged themselves on the side of the anti-stabilisation- and emphasises the force of what commonsense view of the position, ists. At that time, the dollar has been said of the folly of eling- was low in terms of sterling, anding to the "cousinly theory in dis- one of the arguments adduced cussions of British-American rela- against stabilisation was that if tions..

the level were to be fixed at a

mento

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 finite 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 some international scheme. sures to the outflow of silver, of

currency stabilisation whereas Hongkong has more or Meanwhile, It would be all to the. less kept pace with the trend of good if responsible business men the white metal. As a con- and others interested would alr sequence, currency disparitica their views on the question.

"Now, what I want to do la 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 dyspeptic one?

Is your face (n.) oval?

(b.) squaret or

-

(c.) "Just round and flat like a full-flushed moon?

If the last, it would aimply look fascinating behind a veil, the less transparent the better."

Is your namo

(a.) Cynthia?

(b.) Patricia? Or any other pretty name terminating with the last two letters?

As for ourself, wo have christen- ed our latest-born Neuralgia, be- enuse we know she is going to give us a headache.

with artificialitics whilst there are blazing grim realities signalling for prompt attention. When the ship is in peril of foundering, it' is all hands to the pumps, and to quarrel over either classification of pumpers or the kind of pumps to be used would be stark lunacy. An electorato of whom not one per cont, over reads a Parliamentary report is not likely to be responsive to partizan subtleties.

am

In fact we have, unless I completely mistaken, now come to a pitch when for the majority of people, the people whose votes will Bottle futuro elections, there is but ons 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 now instead. Any Aner distinction than that, I am afraid, is no longer feasible.

In this supremo emergency' the victory may very well go to the aido which first discovers somo leader of adequate weight of par sonality and power of oratory to away the popular imagination.

At over seventy it may be doubt- ful whether Mr. Lloyd George has elther 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 achieved a moderate rather than any brilliant success, as was perhaps inevitable: In the existing altuation, but the time is at hand when it will eadly nood a real spell-binder.