dut Lady Rhondda in "time and Tide."
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Miniature The disasters that have so far Disasters, Sre but miniatures of what can be occurred in China and in Spain done by two modern nations of equal strength and equal ferocity, observes the "i [Any one so foolish as to think they are ofi little importance because and even Spain, is far away, should reflect that the fate of Chinese and Si a more horrible scale, his he thinks that at least it does not concern him as yet, he should realize that the air attacks On the cities of Spain and of China already mean that the science and material advances-which have been Europe's gift to the world have degenerated into weapons of destruction. No good European can feel free of the shame implicit in recent events, A civilization, common to the whole world, that allows such crimes to proceed unchecked deserveg to perish, and inevitably will.
Septant American real estate—all to often t The constant rise in taxes on
levied to raise for wasteful and needless public spending—must be curtailed by enlarged according 16 the latest poppa of legal or constitutional limitation, rather than
the theorists, intimates "Barron's." The ment should put a stop to uncertainty ami real estate investors by refraining from entering the field as a subsidized competitor, and from its LO.U/s into the lending institu.
placing investments in realty loans at very time that those institutions are under the shadow of the vast amount of foreclosed perties, gloomy monuments to the folly of over-lending in pre-depression days, The cour-ade of one large insurance company, ting),000,(to housing tine s d hopeful portent" MUS RUBER der-investment in real estate by the wealthier investors, possibly induced by fear of mounting taxation, may after al be an ultimate advantage. It certainly is preferable to over-investment; and the repeated shocks of recurring losses in the stock market may reverse this policy, divering these great resources into the channel of ownership of realty.
King Oil the The naval correspondent to [2a nu "Horse and Hound" writies:—It is à fact worthy of grave consideration that today there is not a single coakfüred ship of importance in the British Navy. Now I see that the Government áre turning their attention to the Mercantile Marine, and it is proposed to subsidize the construction of oil drifters. Now I served for some time in trawlers and drifters working in the North Sea, and it was almost universally recognized that the steam-driven craft were superior in y ways to those using oil fuel. engineer, but the main. T experts, as Y saw it, was the was elastic and could be ci extra Work, wi
that point which I above which ANOA question of he dab big dependent on a would be difiie when we c bound to oil as a is stowed in y the event of war increase oni from? Thi nation were fo its food. Si 4 areas, which wonders why the best taken from and han produced ficult to carry etn specially owing to its Really the attitude of the respect seems, to verge on nothing short national suicide,
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