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What turnip-growers cannot do with turnips, Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales proposed last week to do with what he called "the wealth which Australia can produce in her primary and secondary industries...
Against this "wealth" Laborite Lang would issue money, as it is usually issued against gold. He also proposed that the interest paid on Australian Government bonds be reduced to 3%. Finally he urged the Premiers of all the Australian States to demand from Great Britain "as favorable terms in repaying our debt as were granted by the United States" to Great Britain...
Only the last of Mr. Lang's suggestions appealed to his colleagues. They know that Australia is in a dreadful financial mess, but they are not ready yet for tur nip money. On the other hand they could see no harm in asking of John Bull the same generous terms he received from Uncle Sam. Later in the week Laborite James Henry Scullin, Prime Minister of all Australia, queried London...
...Among the haggard caverns of the moon the backer of the party goes crazy and has to be shot. The professor discovers gold and is lost in a crevasse. The lovers stay behind to die on the wastes where nothing has ever died or been born before. Director Fritz Lang and his scientific colleagues have made a vigorous Vernesque fantasy and used every resource of the camera in photographing it. Good scenes: the pock-marked moon-face swimming up, nearer and nearer out of space; the point 220,000 mi. from the earth where the gravity of earth and moon...
...Liberals from voting on the bill at all. The bill came up. Eight Liberals led by Sir John Simon jumped the Lloyd George hedge and voted with the Conservatives, but Labor won, 277 to 250. Laborites ran wild, shook the rafters of the staid House of Commons with "Auld Lang Syne." Bitterly spoke Liberal Sir John Simon...