Show COAL CR S S CHIEf TOPIC fOR BRITAIN Unusual Sunshine and Bryan However Help to Remove Gloom By BT A. A G. G G G l Greatest Liberal Editor l H l to The Standard Standard- Examiner Copyright 1925 by The dated Press Association LONDON DON July IS sun n sunshine shine anti and the coal crisis ore are the principal subjects occupying the he I British public mind this week After ACler three wet ct summers the tho present experience of oC uninterrupted ed td sunshine Is III something ng of or a II sen sen- sensation and the public Is learning to live II out of ot doors in continental fashion Trade may droop but games s-am's nourIsh flourish more than Ihan ever pr especially p lally tennis to which the tho magic Ie of Suzanne Suzann Lenglen n has given ghen an astonishing Il Impulse Meantime the crisis In III the I he coal trade Is I lIe unrelieved d anti and govern govern- government ment Intervention produces no so 80 lution The men decline to con con- consider consIder sider the masters masters' proposals ls and Ignore suggestions offered by the go s o eminent Secretary Cool Cook of or orthe the miners miners' union adopts a extravagant gant language claiming that th- th whole trade union movement mO ment will support the miners and ancl hinting at ata a Ii general strike with the transfer of ot the mines to 10 the men mn OWN X Tin TIll MINES Dont destroy the I he mines t hey ht will be yours ours tomorrow de destroy dl stroy your our own properly he says This attitude however dos does not represent the more mort responsible minds In the trades union move move- movement movement ment who are anxious to avoid an 1111 Industrial catastrophe espe especially ly cla In circumstances most un- un fa ora fa arable le to labor and who recognize nize that the present high cost rost of ot coal Is II one of oC the chief causes of ot depression In III the staple Industries of oC the country Th Th turns lurns primarily y on the question of ot hours the owner contending ont that the seven hour day da has hall been be n disastrous to lion tion The Tho critical will movement movement will willbe be reached ached r at the j nd of oC July when the owners owners' denunciation of oC the terms of oC the existing agree agree- agreement ment takes take effect Much attention has hM been at attracted by an attack by Ly General Jan Smuts of oC South Africa In a message to the Dally y News on the tho proposed pact with France l rance and Germany Aa As chief author with Wilson of oC the League of oC Nations Nallon plan Smuts Insists on tho effi efficiency of oC that Instrument for all legitimate purposes that could be lie served by the pact and points out that refusal of oC the overseas o do do- dominions domInIons minions to share share- In the pact will have a disintegrating effect on the British empire Ills declaration naturally has created a II deep Impression In po po- political circles here her where Ma hIs prestige stands very high In re regard re- re gard to the larger considerations of C the British commonwealth He lie strengthened that prestige this week by his strong appeal to the Cape Cap parliament not to desert London for Cor New ew York as a source of ot borrowing Ho pointed out that thaI practically all all' South African Africani i ports go to Groat Grat Britain and urged that It was to the Interest of oC South Africa to borrow from froma troma a customer country or The struggle over er the the new cruiser program seems to have been revived re The admiralty Is pressing for tor new ships with threats of oC resigning It IC refused and the government Is disposed tI to yield A fierce attack upon the proposal was WM made In the debate In parliament Thursday David Lloyd George declared declare l that tho admiralty's policy was heading tho country straight for tor bankruptcy and Sir John Simon the tho liberal II 00 ml leader denounced tho Idea of oC building ships of at war as liS a means of ot dealing with unemployment i Doth Both Insisted that there was was' no visible enemy to arm against at sea and that Prime Minister Baldwin's Baldwins talk of or creating an nn at atmosphere of or peace In Europe was wu Inconsistent with setting tho pace In a race of armament Mr Lloyd Llod Georgo also argued that the tho overseas dominion should bo be asked a. a ked to contribute to the tho cost of ot the empires empire's defense contend contend- contending contendIng ing that protection of oC commerce was wu a matter of or as much concern for tor ono one part of ot the tho empire as for tor another Much amusement Is had by press and public from Crom the comedy In Dayton Tenn The question I of ot evolution has so long ceased to the public mind hero that tha revelation re of ot fierce controversy thai rages roge around It In Somo Bomo of ot the tho American A states like a II revival of ot the tho middle ages William Jennings Bryan's Bryans part partIn In the affair alone gives It any appearance of or gravity and general comment on his participation es especially es- es especially the remarks of oC George Bernard Shaw ore highly con I Tho Dally 1 all News observes re referring r ferring to Mr I Bryan's Bryans past It ItIs ItIs Is a pity that so much that Is I fine CIne should disappear dl In laughter |