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3 THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30; 1927 EE _---- - ALY SUSPICIOUS 0 FRENCH ACTION cars Change of Ambass- zdors Means Strain on Relations . Nov. 28.--The resignation of Kiera the French ambassa- Hor ™ the Quirinal, has given rise to wuch discussion of Franco-Italian re- ations in general, relations which in he past few years have been none oo good. Despite the formal declag- tion that Bernard's only motive for esignation was to return ta his ¢on- tituency as a candidate for re-elec- jon to the 'Senate next spring, the talian press insists upon being dis- atisfied with the explanation. It is insistently asserted im Italian ircles that Bernard's attitude was oo conciliatory toward Italy to lcase the Quai d'Orsay, and that since there are apparent signs, es< bhecially recently, that France hs de- ided to stiffen her policy toward the kingdom, Besnard was considered o longer a suitable spokesman. To this viewpoint authoritative french aheeryery who have discussed the subject say that it must be "re- membered that Besnard came to Italy three years ago, with the in- tention of staying only six months, that he has repeatedly asked to he relieved of his post for home palitical relations, and that he has remained as long as he has only upon. insist- ence by the Quai d'Orsay. Therefore, it seems obvious that the retiring ambassador has not heen an unsatis- factory mouthpiece of French policy toward Italy. Doubt Protestations Italians. however, say that all may 5 ] -- have been perfectly true until re- cently, but they assert that French policy is no longer what it was when Bespard came to Rome. Although there is mo expressed objection to Baron de Beaumarchais, who is com- ing to repace Besnard, the entire press has expressed apparently gen- uine regret at the latter's departure, and has not failed to underline the fact that de Beaumarchais hitherto has been director of 'political affairs at the Quai d'Orsay. It is also sig- nificantly mentioned that for a num- ber of years he was assistan director of African affairs at the French For- eign Ministry, and also that he play+ ed an important role in the negotia- tions between France and Spain cons cerning Morocco. This tells virtually the whole story, Because Moroceo has become ful- crum of Franco-Italian relations, it is becoming a sore spot, with a con- notation almost. comparable 10 Alsace-Lorrain. Ii the strained res lations between Rome and Paris ever reach breaking point, Merocco will be written in letters of fire on the troubled horizon. Italy insists, and probably will continue to insist, that the fact that she agreed in 1922 not to interfere with French activities in Morocco, in exchange for French non-interference with Italian activi- ties in Tripolitania, in nop way ex- cludes Italy from a voice in the ad- ministration of Tangier, because 'in hat agreement Tangier was not specifically mentioned, The French reply is that the very fact that Tan- gier was not mentioned means that it was included in the agreement, for the simple reason that Tangier is recognized as part of Morogco--and the treaty specified Morocco, and not certain parts of it. Therein consists a deadlock between two viewpoints, France, according to French infeor- mants, regards the question some- what follows: In the Moroccan question, which Italy insists on keep ing to the fore, Italy hasn't one thing to offer to France in exchange as At the REGENT THEATRE This Week Panatrope Sensation of the Musical World-- Choice of the Royal Family, The music of the Panatrope is the standard which imitating manufacturers are striving to attain, Many 'Beautiful Models Priced From $115, Hear them at your Brunswick dealer's to-day. | The Brunswick-Balke- Collender Company oi arada Limited Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver. for what she is demanding. The only thing ltaly has is demands based on the necessity for an outlet for her population. "But how this: concern us?" France asks, "Italy has already pro- mised "to leave us in peace as far as Morocco 1s concerned; now she ering to leave us in peace again, wa certain price. If we acquiesce n this form of diplomatic blackmail, how many times in the future might Italy propose to let us alone?" Italy Wants Territory Italy confronts this argument with 1 deep-rooted conviction that France conspired with the other allies at the Versailles Peace conference to cheat Italy out oi her just fruits of the noi victory ; the mistakes made | Vi les must be rectified--if not' thr generpus arrangement: as regards Tangier cand Tunis, then by some other arrangement, such as concession Italy of former Ger- man_eolonies in Africa. France--always according to French circles here--appreciates Italy's need of territory, and is quite willing to do her part in making a proper re adjustment--but not more than her hare. "Why," France asks, "bother us about these questions, Why not land, too? France is willing to up some of her mandates German colonies if England do likewise." Hitherto, however, > has been no suggestion of ter- rial demands upon England England has been helping Italy in | other ways, which, $0, far, have not [he en very satisfactory The recent | pact of friendship between France nd Jugo-Slavia has not helped to mprove Franco-Italian relations d tuly has made the most of the situa- on. an unconfirmed rt that Italy recently proposed in- cetly that she would give up her aims regarding Tangicr if France I give Italy a free hand in the ns does 15 to ive ornier will over | | re 1s rer It Slay here believed that the Franco-Jugo- treaty was intended as a reply to. if, indeed, such a proposal ver nade. "To have acted other- Frenchmen have said, "would | rave been treason against our friends ! Jugo Slavs." ise." he Grouping in an ultra-modesn Duo. ervice Tray the forty-three pieces decreed for the service of six by atest correct usage tray--$56, SMART SILVER SERVICE COMMUNITY. PLATE $ ip up-tomdate! The gor geous oval tray lends tone to the ser wice of tea and coffee or isa highly decora- give sideboard ornament. The silverware is charming -- dignified --Jasting. The ' welvet rack keeps it snug Including all forty-three pigces and "GF in any drawer. the BASSETT'S On Oshawa's Busy Corner GLOOMY BEAN VISIONS FUTURE Lives Up to Reputation in Prediction of Conditions a Century Hence The chief effect of the Great War was to precipitate changes which were taking place slowly and grad- ually. Sir Edward Grey, in 194, warned the Austrian Ambassador that at the end of the war everything that the Central Empires wishes to preserve would disappear. It was a true prophecy. In 1911 1 ventured to say to a German publicist that if a Furopcan war broke out Europe would be wantonly sacrificing its last fifty years of supremacy -- the tertius gaudens would be America. This also was, I think, a true pro- phecy. But the social changes that we are seeing began long before the war, writes Dean Inge in the London Evening Standard. The go'den age of the middle class began in 1832, though the old oligar- chy kept much of their power for a generation longer. The downfall of the middle class began with Disraeli's clever stroke to dish' the Whigs in 1867, though as before the effects of the extension of the franchise were not very apparent until another gen- eration had passed. Now under uni- versal suffrage the helplessness of the middle class is painfully apparent, especially in the professions, Before the end of the century we may sce such a state of things as exists in America. An American naval attache told me that a naval officer he was considered no credit to his family His relations tried to per- sade him to give up the navy and become a shopkeeper. But 1 da not expect this, and hope that the pres- tige of the Army, Navy and the learned professions will be kept up, in spite of the poverty of those who them. The solid comfort in which the British professional man lived in the last century was quite exceptional Scandal of Law Fortunes The great scholars and thin! Germany in the pre-Bismarckian age were content with a very few hun- dreds a year, and were honored as they deserved. The same has al- ways been true in France, where the prizes, even in the legal and medical professions, are very small as eom- | pared which a leading barrister or a surgeon wires in this country, I hope that the hig legal fortunes, which sec to me a andal, will before long be a thinz of the past. The enormous fees paid to the most per- uasive counsel are simply a measure of the incompetence of our tribunals It ought not to ma'te nearly so much difference whether a lit nt is able to retain a leader of the Bar or a apable ut 1dvocate. fortunes n America, | easily won, worth while to make them land they will be increasingly , and it will he he y since the 1 death duties" make it al- most impossible to found a family, which has always been the main ob- ject of an Englishman's ambition. Very few men would work with the object of being very rich i their old hey knew that the state would more than half their savings at gheir death. Now that the possession of wealth is treated as a sort of crime, the old ostentation is rapidly disappearing. In twenty years there will be very fev large country houses left. They are among the few beau- tiful things that we have to show to our visitors, but they are doomed, The whole face of the country will be spotted with bungaloid growths, within which childless couples will sleep, after racing about the roads in their little motor cars Dwiadling Nation As in [ will . be servantless. America, the typical house sery Meals will he brought in from a delicatessen shop, and heated by a gas or electric cook- er. The art of supplying standard- ized needs by pressing buttons will be carried to great perfection. The population will, I think, begin to decrease slowly about 1950. The increase at present is entirely due to the preponderance' of young lives in the population, which keeps the crude death-rate (about 12 per 1000) very | much below the real death-rate | (about 18 per 1,000). As the rate of | increase slows down, the age-distri- | bution of the population will grad- | wally. become normal, and between 1940 and 1950, if my calculations are correct, the crude death-rate will rise | to meet the real death-rate. The | birth-rate last year was 17.8, so that a real equilibrium has heen reached, { and while a small further decline in | births is to be expetted,- it -is. not | likely that medical science and sani- | tation wilt extend the average dura- tion of life beyond sixty years, cor- responding to death-rate of 16 2-3. A decline in numbers would 'relieve the terrible burden of unemployment, which in part at least is clearly due to over-population, and a little more elbow-raom would be very desirable. Socials equality would go. further even thaa economic equality. Educa- tion is rapidly removing the dialectal differences which in England, per- haps more than in other countries, accentuate social barriers. Now tl gentlemen's sons are, in hundreds, becoming 'bagmen, shopwalkers, and what not, while the sons of workmen are entering the professions, through the county council schools and State subsidies, a man's occupation will soon be no indication of the position of his family. In all callings unprog. tected. by trade unions Adore. wi as choose ca Ie Ve to he made ly because they are partly because it is In Eng- hard worth con- continue and and ie them, age ii th take increasing competition, a higher average of ability. But the trade unions are likely to make it difficult for newcomers to enter the trades. and it is quite possible that before the end of the century a boy may become a miner or a bricklayer "by patrimony," as he now becomes a member of a City Livery Company. it being allowed to bring in one son { There In this a modified caste system An oss Tl EE which we may Jock lowatd Nithont ret +. es) the grow soem) SAR Ly Chesterfield (h of the letters) found fault with the manner of Samuel Johnson because, as he said, the lexicographer treated everyone alike. A gentleman, his lordship thought, ought to have a dif- ferent and appropriate mansder to his superiors, . his equals, and his in- feriors. In our day Lord Chester- field would soon be made to under- stand that his own manners were in- tolerable. * But we have still some- thing to learn in this respect from well-bred Americans, who reserve a deferential mode. of address for age and proved worth. It is here, and not in politics, that democracy may claim to be Christian, Christianity has nothing to say for or 'against de- mocracy as a form of government, or as a form of State but as a form of society it is.on the side of democracy. The true gentleman. has, of course, learned this lesson; but those. whose social position is: not well defined are still liable to fall into snobbery and arrogance. The greatest danger which we have to fear 'is the: result of universal suf- frage. Socialism seems to have died giving birth to its 'mis-begotten brat 'Communism, an, utterly unwork- able scheme. What is called Social- ism..ig simply political bribery on a large scale; aud under universal sui- frage : the largest bribers are likely to win. A new parasitic class is be- ing created, much larger and there- fore. much more dangerous than the idle rich of the past. The dole is the most mischievous and ruinous device for buying 'off revolution that has ever been invented. : It was resorted to after the Napoleonic War in the form of outdoor relief out of the rates; and the burdens on the land soon became so intolerable that far- mers began to throw up their. farms and 'parsons their livings. At that votes, and the Government had the courage to bring the pernicious sys- tem to a sudden end. Now, no Gov- ernment would dare to do anything of the kind. ud Strangle-hold on Industry A generation is growing up, a large proportion of whom have never dome an honest day's work. They apply every week for their twenty-five or thirty shillings, as proud as if they had deserved well of their country. Ii they are offered thirty-two shil- lings a week for some unskilled labor they reject it with scorn. "What? Me work for six shillings .a week? 1 have a right to twenty-six shillings for doing nothing." They will not emigrate, for no country in the world makes things so comfortable for its Wont-Works as England does. Besides the dole there are other exemptions and subventions which go far beyond the value of the laborer's work. This new parasitism is strangl- ing the industry of the country, and preventing the recovery which would soon reduce the numbers of unem- loyéd. The effects are very deadly, or people are coming to look to the State as an inexhaustible lucky-bag into which everyone has the right to dip. The habit of honest work is lost, and a vast number of useless mouths is being maintained, who every year become more incapable of making good. It is not easy to see how any remedy for-this terible evil is to be found. It is a bad sigp that it is al- ready accepted as an incurable and permanent drain on the resources of the nation. Whole classes are going under beneath the burden, and mak- ing no audible complaints. It is like the state of things under the later Roman Empire, when the middle- class met their fate in dumb resigna- tion. Resignation is the disease of time the receivers of the dale had no | which civilizations die ADONIS TYPE OF NEN ARE COMMON Marchioness Discusses Fea- tures of Today's Men and Women I 'have often wondered whether good looks h to e a person happier; and aiter some hesitation I I have decided th:t they do not make very much difference in the long run, writes the 'Marchioness of Queensberry in the London Daily Mail. Beauty was a favorite subject of contemplation among the ancients. Plato, you will remember, nowhere separated 'the beautiful from the good. "This, T fear, cannot be applied to people. In fact beauty often has the reverse effect and can be a handi- cap to the development of 4 sweet and attractive disposition. It is the plain people who have to take the trouble to be charming, and in con- sequence are most often attractive. Beauty may be a wonderful conso- lation to a' woman--T am sure it is-- but to a man it is not of much vilue. Not that men neglect it on that ac- count. They often profess to take no interest in their appearance and assure you that they see their faces only when it is absolutely necessary, such as during the early morning shave. But my opinion is that the average man takes'a keen interest in his looks, as is proved by the meti- culous appearance of some of the so- called men about town, which must involve a great deal of time, money, and interest exnended on clothes. is mon There is in England a particularly PAGE THIR1EE! handsome type of man. He is quite distinctive and can be easily recog- nized anywhere abroad. He is con- spicuous for his healthy, honest coun- tenance, his frank demeanor and general air of good-tempered assur- ance. The only drawback to this Adonis is the commonness of his type. Among the many men of this kind in London, it is often difficult to distinguish one from the other. It is perhaps because we have got so accustomed to this type in Eng- land that we display so much en- thusiasm fo: dark Latin men like the late Rudolph Valentino. 1 admired his face very much, and you have only to look at one of his old films again to realize how beautifully it was modelled. Another outstanding film face is that of Ramon Novarro, the dark, clean-cut Mexican who was the hero of "Ben-Hur." Then there is the attractively ugly kind of face which women so often say they admire, perhaps because (we being such loyal creatures) their husbands do not belong to the hand- somest type. This is a more interest- ing and often far more cultured face. I should mention Sir Gerald du Maurier as belonging to this type. I think the weather-beaten and bronzed Colonial must be a little out of fashion these days. 1 no longer see it asserted so freqquently in ad- vertisements that all handsome men are slightly tanned. This may ac- count for the modern cult of the pale and intellectual young man, extreme- ly handsome very often but, judging by looks, unequal to weathering much of the storm. His loosely fitting and modish suits deceive the eye, and his slim and effeminate frame is cun- ningly concealed, His hair is very long--an_ Eton crop is far too short for his tastes--his shirts are made of what 1 expect would make excellent pyjama material, and he has a pretty if hardly robust taste in socks, hand- kerchieis and ties. Perhaps he does not deserve all the abuse he gets, but I would not class him types of masculine beauty, not think that this is due prejudice against a new fa all, the aesthete has been since the days of "Patience," seems to survive me I always think Lord R typified what an Engli pected to look like at his was known as "the gen is excellently portrayed as si the full-length portrait which gent painted of him, and hangs in the National Galles very distinguished-looki ; men are General Sir Ian ton and Sir Johnston Forbes-: son. When our aesthetic j siders an object it does so from angles, and when we speak of in a man's face most of us among other things, certain strengt A most virile and forceful g Mussolini's, remarkable for its bodiment of the great dri that are in the man. Jt vitality and personality. iam x "I understand some of your have stopped laying?" "Yes: two of them." "What's the cause?" "Motor car." 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