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by the skin of its teeth succeed!
The League Loans.
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE.
Milk for Buildings.
One cannot match the story of the peasant in an arid region of Hungary who mixed the mortar for
his new dwelling with wine in- stead of water, but it is known' that Italian plasterers mix their plaster with milk.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1932.
Roosevelt Reviews "The Big Job
Singular Zest For Life's Adventure
THE JOLLY GOVERNOR
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A visitor who was re-facing the exterior of his Italian villa was re- cuhtly astonished hear his
The first Impression produced by Governor did not go to the Capitol. workmen ask for several gallons of the Democratic candidate for the He took advantage of the first lull milic.
Unaware that the hardy Presidency is that of the fortunate in three weeks to catch up with his
dispose of Piedmontese had lately succumbed man who is doing what he most correspondence, to Prohibitionist propaganda, heilkes to do, a man who enjoys his cumulated routine business of the inquired the reason, and it was expresent office, is eagerly on his way State and map out the series of plained to him that the use to one he will like better, and in alljapeeches for his Western trip. As not enough, with an milk in mixing the plaster would circumstances maintains a "amilin' if this were give a certain velvety patina to the through" philosophy and a singular interview or two thrown in, in the walls of the villa.
zest for the adventure of life. In afternoon there were hearings on those good old days when he nomin-the cases of two prisoners condemn- ated the Happy Warrior, he was, ed to death in Sing Sing; a two- like the painter. who suggests his hour conference with representa- own characteristics in his portraits tives of the railway workers' unions, JUST THE SAME 'Pelota, the world's fastest game, of others, extolling the political invited by the Governor to give into temperament he has successfully their views on a perplexing public is shortly to be introduced
question; a discussion with two England. Already 'I can hear the cultivated in himself.
When I first saw Franklin D. State Commissioners on new power frenzied fans screaming: "Offside- foulplaythewhistleshootwherestheref-Roosevelt, at the Cox notification houses; a review with counsel of од the ceremonies in Dayton in 1920, he Judge Staley's decision was a handsome and radiant figure Walker appeal; the daily press con- There were besides a faring forth on a hopeless campaignference.
Your Daily Smile.
dirtyturnhimoff."
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Unwept, unhonoured- but still with a smile of gay good humour. atream of other callers, letters to Twelve years later he awooped down sign, a dozen calls over the long- unhung.
from the skies to accept his own distance telephone."
All, the motion and commotion, nomination from the Chicago con-
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The Mayor of Chicago' says the vention. In the interval he had the flow of people and talk, natural- London detective force is one of the suffered one political defeat mostly ly revolv:4 around Governor Roose finest in the world. Tece appeal. vicarious, and a physical disaster so velt. He moved from room to room, valorously surmounted and lightly everywhere interrupted, but always "What Hos This Government borne, that it has become almost an unhurried, unworried, good-humour- asset. Otherwise his luck has held; ed, interested in overything and the luck of being a well-born and everybody, thoroughly enjoying him- League's creditors are in default.
comfortably circumstanced Ameri-self; in his element. Between-times, Not only has the transfer of the|
can, happily following a chosen at odd intervals, I asked questions, career, mounting with rapid steps which he answered with great VIEIRA-RIBEIRO.-On November sums required for the service of
the political pyramid until at 50 he facility. Not only is he quick 9, 1932, at the French Convent these debts been suspended, but
stands at the apex, lender of his minded, but so pat and fluent, speak- Hospital, Gustavo
Augusto also in more than one instance Vieira-Ribeiro, the dearly be the payment of assigned revenues Pulling a trigger feeds solder to party in a year when the winds blowing in paragraphs and never hesitat- ing for a word, that he might have loved son of Mr and Mrs in the currency of the debtor the tip of a new electric soldering in his direction.
A Fixed Smile.
written out his answers. A. J. Vieira-Ribeiro, aged 20 countries has been withheld. It iron that resembles a pistol.
Back in 1000 Governor Roosevelt,
Moral Leadership. years. Funeral will pass the is true that since these docu-
"The Presidency," he says, "is Monument at 6.30 p.m. to-day.ments were drawn up, some two Umbrellas have been invented by then a candidate for the State
on Senate, made the first automobile not merely an administrative office. (Macao, Shanghai, Manila and months ago, some of the debtor a Bavarian to be mounted Janay papera please copy.)
countries have made an effort, bicycles to shelter riders from rain campaign. He made another pre- That's the least of it. It is more cedent when he flew to Chicago, and than an engineering job, efficient ar however slight, to improve their or sun.
by that characteristic touch of inefficient. It is pre-eminently a position. Thus the Green Gov- ernment has recently arranged Stop signs for streets that a Call- drama, plus the same smile, now place of moral leadership. All our to meet the service of its foreign fornia man has invented sink into more fixed and deepened, like his great Présidents were leaders of automobile voice, he succeeded in dissipating thought at times when certain his debt for the time being to the pavements should an
the glumness of an assembly that toric ideas in the life of the nation extent of 30 per cent., and the strike them.
toward the end had gone heavy and had to be clarified. Washington Austrian Government, which has
Made early in the Seventeenth more than a little sour. His cam personified the iden of Federal union. ed in obtaining the ratification century, bee hives that are formed paign speeches have a similarly in Jefferson practically originated the of the Lausanne agreement for a like human figures still are in use spiriting effect. He is not a speak-party system as we know it by op er to raise the echoes and the tem-posing the democratic theory to the new League loan, has undertaken in Silesia.
perature, like Governor Smith, but republicanism of Hamilton. This The League Loans Committee as soon as the loan is issued to
he does raise the hopes of the Demo- theory was reaffirmed by Jackson. in London, which was formed this resume payment on the recon
crats, and their eyes to the Promised Two great principles of our govern- summer under the chairmanship struction loan of 1923.
ment were forever but beyond ques- Land, of Sir Austen Chamberlain to Hungarian Government has also possible to consider an orderly It is in Albany, however, on the tion by Lincoln. Cleveland, coming safeguard the status of the lonus expressed the hope that it will scaling down for the time being job and eating it up, that his gusto into office following an era of great issued under the auspices of the at any rate be able to provide of those obligations which, owing Is most Impressive. There you see political corruption, typified rugged League of Nations and to protect sufficient funds to meet the in- to the collapse in prices brought him stimulated by the atir and honesty. T. R. and Wilson were its League about by the world crisis, have movement, the light and spotlight, both moral leaders, each in his own the bondholders, has issued two terest coupons on memoriats, one addressed to His loan up till August of next year. become a burden too great for of the public tournament. He en-way and for his own time, who used Majesty's Government and the But in view of the continued de- the debtor countries to bear.
the terioration in the economic situa- The chief task of the Council joys attacking the problems of the Presidency as a pulpit. other to the Council of
He relishes the): administration.
[Continued on Page 4) League. Both documents draw tion of the countries of Central in dealing with this question at stratagems and aurprises of the attention to the deplorable effect and South-Eastern Europe, the its next meeting should there-election fight. Above all he loves upon the influence of the League whole position is uncertain, and fore be to evolve a regular method the crowding contacts with all sorts of Nations of the defaults which it is imperative that the Council of procedure by which, in agree of people. He has something of the SPITTING IN MARKETS have occurred upon the League of the League at its next meetment with the debtor Govern- Indiscriminate enthusiasm, the "dee loans, and to the difficulty which ing should take immediate steps, ments, such defaults as are real-light of the first Roosevelt. such defaults inevitably place in in the interest of debtors and crely inevitable can be regularized, frat interent, he says, is in the the way of raising further loans ditors alike, to reach a business- first by the suspension of sinking theory and practice of government; needed for the purposes of re-like agreement with the debtor funds and then, where necessary, his second is in people. When he also em-countries on the future status of by the partial remission of the speaks of "humanising government," construction. They
The liquida transfer of interest payments.a favourite phrase, he means bring- phasize very justly the special these obligations. character of the League issues, to tion of the vast mass of miscelAt the same time the Council ing the two more closely together. which the British investing pub-laneous indebtedness which has should lose no time in impressing If called upon to move in, he would the Sanitary Board, hold yesterday. lic subscribed about half the total. been contracted since the conclu- upon the debtor Governments humanise the White House," too, They point out, moreover, that sion of the War must be carried the inviolability of the revenues and at Albany you can imagine what Mr. G. B. Sayers, the President, moved "That the Board approved these issues have a moral claim out in an orderly and systematic assigned to the service of these effect that might have on the plea the introduction of the following to special consideration, since manner. This process implies loans, and in insisting upon the sant, pltlessly public but austere addition to the by-laws governing.
The
His
PROHIBITED.
New Sanitary Board By-Law Passed.
At the fortnightly meeting of
but for the reconstruction above all a spirit of harmonious necessary measures of economy domicile of the Presidents.
the markets: No person. shall spit schemes to which they were up-collaboration and a clear recogni- in the management of their Bud Stodgy and heavily Victorian in plied the service of any pre- tion of the different categories of gets. Only by these means will outward, aspect, the Executive Man in any market stall, nor in any War debts could not have been debts. It is natural enough that it be possible to hold the balance sion of New York State under the market avenue, stairway or thor
oughfare." renewed, and lenders would not in a time of world-wide catas- equitably between the interests present regime is probably the most Supporting the President, were have been found to invest their trophe private creditors should of crediterand debtor and to informal official résidence in the
Vice-President, Dr. G. W. Pope, money in the countries to which desire to safeguard their interests safeguard the financial prestige country. This is also a house with the Hon, Mr. B. M. Henderson, that promise to of the League itself, which is es-out privacy, but nobody seems to M.0.H., Messrs. Wong Kwang-tin, these loans were made. In view by any mearis of these circumstances the Com- assist them in saving what they sential to world recovery. For mind. It is a house full of life and K. Lo L. C. F. Bellamy, C. mittee calls upon the British can from the general wreckage, the ordinary machinery of inter- laughter. The Governor's ready Chamkin, C. H. Basto, J. H. Gelling, Government to ask the Council without any very careful con-national investment has been so laugh rings but from nearly any
of the League to take steps to sideration of such vexed ques- gravely damaged by recent events room, the members of the family secretary, and Ng Mui-kal, assist- In moving his proposition, Mr. restore confidence in League tions as priority. But this ques-that it is doubtful whether it can have a lot of fun among themselves; ant Sercetary. P issues and enable the League to tion, difficult as it is, must clear-again be made to work except even the visitors are cheerful. It,is continue its work of European ly be faced; and there can be no by the help of some organized a house of wide-open doors and few Sayer said that when in April last reconstruction. It would be doubt that, both from the moral form of international collabora- secrets. The Governor's study fabe introduced a series of by-laws difficult to over-estimate the and. from the practical point of tion. The private Investor is not immediately to the left of the front designed to prevent spitting in all gravity of the situation to which view, the claim of the League at present in a position. to as- door and he is not only visible but Premises licenced and controlled these two memorials call atten- loans, to special consideration is sume the risk of commercial apparently accessible to any one who by the Board, he had omitted the tion. Of all the heavy shocks unanswerable. For, without loans, and the transactions be entera. People seem to wander in public markets. It was an impor tant omlaslon-as-the-public-had administered to the system of these loans and the schemes of tween individual Governments and out, glancing at the tolegrams free access to stalls, controlled international credit by the events reconstriction to which they have unfortunately been inspired on the hall table, eavesdropping if
The Motion was put to the Board of the past two years, the de were applied, the economic life only too often by political con- they will, examining the books piled arcas, avenues and passagée. faults which have taken place on of the debtor countries would sideration of a most undesir-up on the tables in all the rooms, and carried unanimously. the League loans are by far the have remained so disorganized able character. The only in variety like a circulating library heaviest, owing to the particular that any business transactions organization which is capable of of current publications. The day-1
Joan Croft, daughter of Bands- ly solemn nature of the obliga- with them would have been im assuming this all-important task was there a reporter picked up a Hors entered into by the debtor possible. It is therefore essen is the League itself. It is also- copy of Stuart Chase's "A New (countries, obligations which in tial that the Governments of the lutely essential therefore that the Deal, and discovered fifty new one-man Croft, of the South Wales several Instances have been dis- creditor as well as of the debtor Council should take immediate dollar bills between the pages, so Borderers, was treated at the regarded in a way which no plea Powers should agree to recognize steps to rehabilitate, its fnancial sent as a campaign, contribution. Military Hospital yesterday after of necessity can excuse, Except their spécial position. Once reputation by dealing with these Goremore Routine. she had been bitten by her mongrel and This was an off day. The Walker dog, which was sent to Kennedy for the Frea City of Danzig and such an agreement has been defaults in a consta
zg hearings the State of Estonia all the reached, and only then, it will be businesslike way
were suspended and the Town: for observation.