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NOTES OF THE DAY
HOLD YOUR BREATH
On the Bands at Daytona when, with a roaring, the British-built Bluebird, piloted by Sir Malcolm Campbell, rushes along the fiṛin- packed sands, you can easily hold your breath for na long as it takes this furiously driven car to travel the measured mile. It only takes a few seconds. Something of the dreadful risk he runs may
two years ago.
matter.
fire
ment within reach.
ARE HIGHER TARIFFS NEEDED?
By SIR ROBERT HORNE
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The Very Idea!
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES
By Juliet Lowell.... Green-eyed Monster Soes Red
Sirs:
Louis is in your employ.
them at his home in his track. I do not like to eyin this matter, but his wife had mania for cut-
Alice.
I bruise casily.
Up And Coming
An energetic, rising young man,
"REAT Britain has been living | An augmentation in the importa- |
under a tariff system for ation of raw materials is all to the Ton Packing Company. period of nearly three years, and good, but an increase in the im this is perhaps not an Inappropriate cortation of meat, amounting to moment to review the effects of Ministerial as well as agricultural Please don't let him bring away devotion to Free Trade. tila departure from our previous hopes.
I am chiefly concerned here; how- any more of your knives. I sup- pose you buy those kalves to cut Have we used our tarifs to the ever with the third category, and slaughter cattle with. Louis full advantage? This
articles wholly or mainly manu- wife threatened to use them on me. question factured," because manufacture re- It's not nice to be jealous like she bo indicated by the reports of his seems now to deserve consider presents industrial employment. A is. So I will be obliged to you if you attempts to lower his record of tion; but the fact that it is naked scrutiny shows that there has been will have Louis return those knives
does not in any way imply a re- On Sunday his ection upon the import Duties an increase of Imports under the back. You, I am positive will find goggles dropped over his nose, al-Advisory Committee. It
would. £20,000,000.
head to the valuc of over most smothering him, and he indeed, be nothing less than a could scarcely see. And this at a miracle If they had succeeded increase represents goods not avail-ting-ho used a razor on a lady,
Doubtless a small part of this speed so little under 300 miles an compiling a scale of duties which able from domestic production; and I am positive that she will use hour that a fow more or less don't had proved so perfect that no rebut at a time when we still have this knife and my skin is very fon-
We have heard of men, view of them was conceivable.
I suggest that our tariffs, taken 2,000,000 workers unemployed and der and I bruise maily. Please driving at 30 miles an hour, who over all, are not now high enough. are doing our utmost to develop hurry.
employment in our own country, it have wrecked their machines be
seems upon the face of it, anomal- cause
they weru momentarily dazzled on a straight run of rond. the year 1931, when the question of given to foreign producers addi- If we cast our minds back to ous that in the course of the last twelve months W0 should have The day before, on Saturday, while adopting a tariff was being most travelling well over 200 miles an anxiously discussed in this country, articles which we can well make tional employment 'in making hour, Sir Malcolm discovered his we shall recall that, next to the car was afre. He stopped as rising tide of unemployment, the ourselves to the value of nearly
1933. quickly na he could, and put the most polent determining factor in $20,000,000 more than in
An analysis of the Board of out. There Was RO split bringing opinion in Great Britain second's confusion in his mind. round to the adoption of a systent Trade Sgures discloses that in without loss of time. A split which threatened us as the result occurred of £3,000,000; in cutlery, He just neted, without furry, but of import duties was the injury 1933; that in iron and steel and manufactures thereof, an increase second's fumbling, a split second's of an adverse balance of trade pay-hardware, etc., increase of relaxation of the iron control hements. must maintain
£600,000; in electrical goods and It may be remembered that even apparatus an increase of £600,000; On the leaping machinery under his hands, would when we added the value of the machinery an increase, of £2, mean certain death. After it was goods which we sold all that we 500,000; in manufactures of wood aver he merely remarked that the earned by services to the world in and timber an increase of £400,000; beach was too bumpy for him to the shape of "invisible exports" in cotton yarns and manufactures an get up speed. Twenty years ago and put this sum against what we increase of £150,000; in woollen the dare-devils were driving 25 owed for the goods which we im- and worsted yarns and manufac miles an hour along country roads, ported, there was a deficit in the tures an increase of £150,000; in and farmers were cursing and balance of payments against us to chemicals an increase of £1,300,- fighting their teams.
com the extent of £104,000,000. The
This 000; in vehicles, including motor- WEDNESDAY, MAR. 6, 1936. parison is not significant to a lay-contrasted with a credit balance in cars, an Increase of £1,000,000; and To a Yeast Company,
man but to Sir Malcolm such an the year 1828 of £167,000,000 in in paper and cardboard more than Gents: advance, and the part he has play-1929 of £103,000,000; and in 1930 £1,000,000. BRITAIN TAKING
Replying on the "rumour" ed in it, must mean much. It is of £28,000,000.
These figures are significant as that you are to place agencies. I'd NO RISKS
likely that there are a good many steady disintegration in our posi- which, if made here, would give not a college graduate, 1.ont It was therefore obvious that a showing that the tariff upon goods like to be an agent. Although I'm The decision of the British to travel 300 miles. an hour on
men who would like to be the firsttion was going on which, if con- employment in our own country, is a lot of weekends calling on a giri Government no longer to delay land; but there is only one, thus tinued, could only end in catas not affording an adequate defence at the University. the taking of what it deems far, who has had the combination stances that the tariff system was and others have recently given ex-you don't think I'm modest.
trophe. It was in these circum-to our industries. Mr. McKenna
I'm rather good-looking, if necessary measures ensuring of courage, perfect control and initiated, with the result, that in adequate security for the Home-super-car which bring the attain-1932 the deficit ngainat us on the future-not in any expectation of raises. My motto is you don't
pression to confidence in
I'm satisfied to go slow on land and the Empire comes as no
balance of payments had been re-a rapid increase in our foreign have to ask for promotion. If you surprise. It is in line with
duced to £56,000,000, and in 1933 to trade, but because they think that work hard, the boss will promote frequent ministerial pronounce COST OF DICTATORSHIP
£4,000,000.
our home market is able to absorb you. He'll promote me I know, ments during the past year, and is not in any sense indicative of
The expectation of all of us, upon duction.
aconalderably increased home pro- that's the kind of mon you're look
ing for. aggressive intent. The White
Whether it stirs you to laughter, which our confidence in the future
Bend me the cash, I don't Paper which has been issued on Long's recent
was based, was that this beneficial tears, or
acute boredom, Huey change would continue, and that view. But auch a favourable result torview you.
I venture to agree with their mind the trouble of coming to in- clash with the the subject fully explains the Square Dealers" of Baton Rouge 1934 would exhibit the kind of will only be achieved if we succeed Government attitude. Briefly was an excellent small-scale motel credit balance which had been the in checking the increase which has
Yours truly, expressed, this is that in her of the typical European blood universal experience of our country been taking place in the adverse
Frank C... (signed) jown interests Britain cannot purse.
balance of trade, and in employing About all that it lacked before 1931. afford to continue along the path was blood. Of that, luckily, there disconcerting to
From this point of view it is our own people in the manufacturo of unilateral disarmament,
find that the of goods which it is entirely within was only a trace. One citizen in the face of continued military was wounded by buckshot, and an-gures for 1934 are likely to show their competence to make t and naval expansion by other zens who suspected him of being The statistica of imports and ex-moderate increases in the duties
other was badly mauled by citi-reversal of the encouraging pro-reasonable cost,
сеян to which I have been referring. Nobody could possibly assert that Powers. For years past, Britain a spy. The rest suffered injuries ports show that the debit balance which ut present exist on a large "A hundred to-day I be and it do has slowed down on armament to nothing but their sensibilities of visible trade has increased variety of our manufactures would zeem no time at all sines good King Bons of economy, but in the hope portent, nevertheless. Senator pared with the year 1938. that her example would be model of the twentieth century creased adverse balance would be offers the most complete denumit
tart countries. Indeed, the sente Long seems to be the American If we could hope that this not on tariffs at the present time
"Good-King-who?"-; followed by others. It was felt dictator, and this "ahindig" was redressed by increased "invisible stration of the moderation with kina turbie mixed. Now when I "Good King Henery. Or maybe that the evidence thus supplied the sort of thing that happens exports" in the shape of payments which we have proceeded in adopt-wur a maid
wur Willum. I do get they of an absence of aggressive in-where dictatorships SSSSS3477|tention might induce
flourish. for shipping, monetary and othering this new policy. other Note the parallels. We had, first services, we might not be dis- nations to come into line, but of all, indignant citizens who fell posed to feel any qualms; but, so ever, arrived, and I hope that at-so. I have to catch the four fifteen. The time for a revisal has, how-"Yes, quite, Mrs. Middleditch, quite "Yea, yes," I said impatiently. these hopes have been falsified that they could not necomplish far as one can judge, there is little tention may be directed to the sub to town. Just tell me, will you, by events. Obviously, auch anything at the polls and who ground for confidence in any such jeet by the various expert bodies about your rheumatism?" polley could not be pursued in-therefore armed and drilled in reflection, and one must accept the which represent our industries in definitely, and there will be few preparation for Aghting. Next we disquieting prospect of confronting this country.
"My rheumatism? Ay, It be Britons who will quarrel withad the Senator ordering out an increased adverse balance of The fact that America is now turble bad. I wur took bad-lot the viewpoint that the time has troops to quell them; next, piments on all counts for the trading on a cheaper dollar, which me ace now-in cluhty-three it war, arrived when national security senator tells about a widespread
public hearing at which the year just closed.
has enabled her manufacturers to How would it be possible to re-offer their goods in external mar-That's splendid, Mrs. Middleditch,
or maybe eighty-fower- enn no longer be placed in jeo-plot to assassinate him.
"That's all right." I interrupted. medy this situation? A glance at kets at considerably reduced prices, pardy. Looked at superficially,
the statistics of our trade shows thus making their competition with I've got the general Idea, thank there might appear to be some
increased importation in each of us much more severe, affords addi-you. And now good-bye, and keep measure of inconsistency in the THE LESSON
the three main categories into tional justification for the recon- your pecker up: I'll hope to come fact that a Government which
which is divided the foreign pro- sideration which seems now to bo down and see you again next year." professes a desire to serve the
duce which comes to our shores. The thing had an odour of comic
| required,
Mrs. Middleditch was evidently cause of peace should decide to opera, to be sure; but it followed
taken aback. embark on an extensive scheme the blueprints of the real thing. for increasing its fighting forces and it leaves one with an un- both in personnel and in equip-time it may end up with shooting. comfortable feeling that next. ment. Actually, the charge is It was just a little too life-like to not justified. Indeed, the aban-be really funny. What is happen- donment of unilateral disarma-ing, obviously, that in this one ment is quite in line with the stato American liberties, Government belief that only by Americans have known them, are a collective system can peace be giving way to one-man' rule, which preserved. And it is deserving is bolstered up just as one-man of emphasis that Britain atill rule in Italy and Germany Is stands firmly by the principle of of Fasciam is running on
bolstered. The Huey Long mode! co-operative effort in the realm parallel with the Mussolini and of disarmament. The dominant ifitter models. Now it is argued, point in the Government policy in defence of all this, that Sena is that it rests on a determinator Long was preceded by an un- tion not to run undue risks, but scrupulous and overbearing poli- that immediately there is anytical machine, so that he is really Indication of other Powers be accomplishing much for the plain Ing willing to come into line on takes their civil liberties
people of his state even while he B comprehensive agreement, from them. But even if we grant, Britain will be prepared whole for the sake of argument, that all heartedly to join in. So much of this is true, there is one more is indicated in the White Paper fact to remember: This is pre- declaration that the scheme now claoly the excuse that dictators decided on is elastic in char overywhore give for their acts. (acter, being subject to constant Mussolini, Hitler, Lanin-they all roview. and adjustment; as cir- chanted it in acason and out of knew that tale by heart, and cumstances justify. If the in- Reason. The lesson ought to be ternational situation were more clear. By surrondering its liber- composed than it is at prescut, ties to gain relief from a bad the necessity for these British situation, a people in apt to get not arise. But with conditions for. It is easier to set up a as they are, it would be the dictatorship than it is to knock height of folly to temporise fur- one down. The flurry in Louisiana ther. National and Imperial who believe that liberty is the was a disturbing sign to people security demand a policy of American people's most priceless preparedness.
possessión..
Interview with Mrs. Middleditch
"and so you're a hundred to-day!"
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"And on Jazz bands, and the talkies, and how so bo I've never been in one of they alroyplanes?"
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Her old eyes twinkled cheerily as I took up my stick and gloves. Fut. I think she was dreadfully dis-- appointed.
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