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Most Caricatured Frenchman. M. Cheron, the French Minister
of Finance, is at presont the most caricatuled man fn France.
There could be no clearer evidence of his popularity. His aldermanic corpulence, his frater- |pal manner, his large. astonished eyes, his shabby leather portfolio and bia eternal woollon mufer, wrapped several timea round bis: ears, are affectionately regarded in every village in the country.
He is the man who is to produce the financial rabbit out of the | Budgetary hat.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1933,
THE SOVIET'S GIANT STEEL TOWN
"BOLD OR CRAZY AS
TIME MAY JUDGE"
THE
"
"IRON RUSH ”
(By MARTIN MOORE.)
camp or a mushroom town of the 4,000,000 tons of plg-iron and You have scen, a "gold rush" steel works in the world, producing
film-makers. Picture to yourself Far West as depicted by. American 2,670,000 tons of steel every year. such a town, with its air of bustle and twenty-eight open-hearth fur- There will be eight blast-furnaces and impermanence and confusion, naces, with coking plants and var- but without its saloons and petty ious accessory mills. "Papa Cheron's" disregard of traders and you have some idea
Long Behind Time. |of Magnitogorsk, his personal appearance has al-
Biost of this ambitious plan is ready been eagerly seized upon by oil rush that has brought nearly a done to show that the construction But it is not a gold rush or an still paper. But enough has been the humorlata.
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"Cleaning Up."
When he was sent for by the quarter of a million people to camp work will certainly be pushed President of the Republic during the first time in history the world authorities are already discussing here on the desolate steppe. For through to the end. Indeed, the the recent ministerial crisis, and he arrived in Paris after two nights
larger plans by which more of the Magnitogorsk is one of the key-Iron and steel can be manufactured
in the train, M. Cheron astonished
is witnessing an "Tron rush."
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the Journalists by declaring that stones of the Five-Year-plan, for on the spot. he must "clean himself up" before Soviets hope to produce there many ever be able to work to full capa- without the iron and steel which the. Whether this huge plant will appearing at the Elysee.
Admirers of his disdain of con-never work to capacity.
&f the large industrial plants can lacity is another matter, which only ventions were reassured when they
time can decide. Some foreign ex- saw that the sturdy Norman mere-
perts are inclined to be sceptical. ly unwound the woollen muffler in Ural range, a day's journey into afcal difficulties of transport were Magnitogorsk lies beyond the One Gorman told me that the phy- which he emerged from the train,Asia. The name means "Magnet such that the plant could never, in and realised that the "cleaning up" Town," and denotes not leaven the most favourable circumstances, process did not go any farther.
forbid) the social attractions of work at more than about 65 per the place, but the magnetic quality cent, of capacity. of the exceptionally rich deposits of iron ore. These deposits ara concentrated in a hill of almost solid iron, so rich is the ore.
Your Daily Smile.
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Three years ago the Arctic wind
blew down over the treeless stoppe,
Despite the feverish energy ap- parent on every alde, Magnito- gorsk is considerably behind the time schedule of the Five-Year Plan.
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ROAD SENSE it, even before the exchange of The report of the Safety First wireless talk had girdled the Association states that ninety-eight
The Soviets still hope to complete out of every hundred road accidents amitten and blasted even in early the plant by the end of next year, whole earth, an unprecedented are avoidable. The other two are autumn, and froze the narrow but it is clear that this hope wil revelation of the vast extent of the other driver's fault as well. trickle of the Ural River.
not be fulfilled. Even optimistic the commonwealth of British
-To-day the same wind is driving observers place the date as 1935. nations and of the tightening and
the smoke of furnances and cok- One man's telephone is another
ing ovens over a city of nearly strengthening. of the bonds be- man's wrong number.
At the time of my visit two of the 250,000 souls,
eight blast-furnaces, with their ac- tween them that the perfection
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whistling in telephone wires and companying coking ovens, were in of the science of broadcasting is
REVISED,
electric cables, ruffling the waters operation. Work was proceeding Truth is stranger than fiction-of an artificial lake. destined to bring about.
Mechanical on the third furnace. This should The far-reaching trunk line of similar service, though by an
Ait is so much more uncommon.
excavators are digging away the have been finished last June; I was airports by which the Federal other method and in a different Circumstances Alter.
"Magnet Mountain," upon whose told by a Bolshevik director that it Government of Canada propose degree, will be rendered to the
slopes the peasants used to graze would be ready before the end of their cattle. Hundreds of drosh-the year; but an American-actual- to link up Halifax on the Atlan-Empire by Canada's Atlantic-
kies and corts go lurching over the ly working on the construction sug- tic seaboard of the Dominion with Pacific airway, fed by steamship
tracks that are called roads merely gested February as a more likely Vancouver on ita Pacific coast.is lines crossing the Atlantic from
because there happen to be no huts date, there. designed in the first place, like Great Britain. Some parts of it
The most sarlous failure is in *Iron Mountsfri,
the construction of the the trans-Canada 'highway which
In a new kind of telephone-box] ·
open This is the most remarkable in-bearth furnaces, not one of which is being built jointly by the Pro-have been or are now being sur-
are already in being, and others you can get stamps. Very soon we dustrial enterprise in Russia-bold is yet in operation.
ishall be able to get telephone num-or crazy, as time may judge.. vinces and the Dominion, to pro-
The latest figures available at the veyed.
{bers. vide relief work for the unem-led will consist of three main see- The line when complet- ployed. That alone is far more tions. Of these the first, start- than enough to justify the expening from Halifax in Nova Scotia. diture of the large sums of money for which it will call. Canada is after crossing the State of Maine westwards to Montreal,
rung
He calls a spade a spade,
Docs Joe- Except when he drops it
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On his toe.
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fortunate in being able to pro-the only part of the route that out odor, is coming into use in the Iron and steel will have to be neither of the furnaces had been
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domestic ROOSEVELT'S
It is clear that on any normal calculation the cost of iron and steel produced in this inaccessible spot must be prodigious, There were projects for exploit-
INEXPENSIVE
INAUGURATION
Military Contingent Curtailed.
NO CAVALRY ESCORT?
Warm Springs, Georgia,
For here is the Iron ore, rich and time of my visit showed that the pure, right on the surface of the two blast-furnaces had produced ground-but where is the coal to just over 150,000 tons of pig-iron; Facts You Did Not smelt it? More than fifteen hun-one of them having been in opera-
Know.
dred miles away, at. Kuznetsk, inition since Feb. 1, and the other Southern Siberial Every ton of since June 7. This was a little Crude rubber which costs less coal used in Magnitogorsk must be less than half what should have then wood and burns readily with-hauled this distance; and much of been produced in the time; but vide its unemployed with work is not over Canadian territory-England for kindling fires. that is an end in itself, and not and from Montreal by North Bay
carried nearly as far to the fac-working to capacity, owing to fre- tories that are to use them.
quent stoppages and the Inexper-. merely designed as an artificial turns north-west, to Cochrane in
Moreover, Magnitogorsk is utter-lence of the man in charge. Intended for public places, a newly devoid of natural supplies. Every measure of relief, however much Ontario. The next section, from automatic fire alarm uses a voices
(Continued on Page 11.) the relief is needed. Sooner or
Jounce of food, every brick or stone, Cochrane to Winnipeg, crosses alto the nearest exits.
reproducing device to direct persons even the togs for the Inter it had to be undertaken. It
tract of country which, though in
fires, have to be brought many; was not to be expected that the
miles. some parts of it open spaces suit- country which has joined the
A census recently taken in India two oceans washing its shores is in others thickly covered with with 318,886,980 ten years ago.
able for aerodromes are available, indicated a population of approxi- mately 351,000,000 дв compared with such gigantic systems as denac forest, where the Canadian Pacific Railway and
a large amount of clearing work will be Electrocution of cattle in packing ing the "Magnet Mountain" sa long the Canadian National Railways necessary. From Winnipeg the plants has been found to produce age as the reign of Catherine, the would be content to lag behind third section, by Regina and better coloured meat and fat than Great; but always it was realised other nations in developing to Lethbridge to Vancouver, is part killing with sledge hammers.
that this factor of prime cost ruled the fullest possible extent the ly over the prairie district, and
out any possibility of economic. modern means of communication here landing places at intervals
working. It is here that the Com-
A smaller parade and less ex- by air, steadily growing in im-
muniste point to their superiority.penditure, for the sake of Federal
portance with, cycry year that
"We don't have to think about pro-and State economy, are features of of about twenty-five miles are
the simple inauguration ceremony already provided. But before nounced between Mr. William Tait
The forthcoming wedding is an-fits," they say. passes. It was inevitable that
Arsenal For War.
planned by President-elect Roose- the people of the Dominion mount the formidable obsta- Butterfield and Swire, and Miss never been worked out. But It cer-4.7
reaching Vancouver it has to sur-Johnstone, engineer, c/c Messrs. Probably the factor of cost has yelt when he takes office on March should feel impelled to show the
The military contingent of the Bame initiative and energy in will be faced with difficulties.
cle of the Rockies, where pilots Christine Russell Wallace, of 6, tainly seems permissible to con-
Stanley Terrace.
clude that a ton of steel produced inaugural parade will be confined the exploitation of the air as they After exhaustive surveys it has
here minst cost in labour, materials, to one regiment of the army, one have in the promotion of trans-
Owing to the Special Gala Night and transport considerably more battalion of sailors, and one bat- port by land and sea. But the
been decided that the passage by to function at the Perinsuin Hotel than any ton of steel. Russia might talion of marines. National Guards
buy abroad.
units will not be included... establishment of the projected way of the Crow's Nest Pass is on Saturday next, February 11, un-
til 2' am.. on the occasion of the It must be borne in mind, how Mr. Roosevelt may break a pre- air line has a still greater the most promising for this part valt of the World Tourists from the ever, that the strategic importance redent by asking for an escort of object ahead of it than the of the route, and on the far side "Empress of Britain" the Man of these Ural and Siberian cepires soldiers on motor-cycles instead of
end Canada's own provision of
of the range several suitable agement of the Repulse Bay Hotel is greator than their industrial the customary escort of cavalry. This escort accompanies the retir- seeds.
It will serve as an in landing sites have been chosen in advises that the usual Dinner Dance significance. their valuable link, in the chain of air in addition to airports already
the valleys of British Columbia, night.
at that hotel will not take place that They are designed to provide Rusing President and the incoming.
sia in case of war, with an imprag-resident as the latter goes from nable armaments and munition com take the oath of office.
the White House to the Capitol to
Here, though not to the same ex-on Empress of Britain will be Mr.
Soon after January 1, when new- to each other the far-off outposts tent as farther east, there are at G. Ward. Price) the well-known [tegic object, even If they nevory elected Governors have taken. of the Empire. On Christmas
journalist. Mr. Ward Price was Froved "paying propositions" in the office, the President-elect will in- Day, in the first half of the hour Alled before, the necessary chain dent to the Daily Mail Hew which the Bolsheviks ate trepared Ing part in the parade not to ap present several gaps still to be formerly special foreign correspon-economic sense. They are a mea-vite the Governors of the 48 states
sure of national defence upon
fo Attond the inauguration. which preceded the broadcasting of aerodromes is completed; so War correspondent with the
He is acking the Governors tak- Turkish Army in the first Balkan spend a lot of money, justpear on horseback, as has been
News In Brief.
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communications which is rapid constructed by half a dozen towns. One of the visitors to Hong Kong/bino remote from any frontièr.
bringing closer to the centre and
They would not fail in thie stra-
כן
of the King's Christmas mu
messige that the unemployed will have award was the Official War they are spending it on the army customary, but to ride in open to his peoples in all parts of the large amount of useful work to Correspondent at the Dardanelles On Magnitogorsk alone they in motor cars. world, the mere recital, one by do as their share in the execution with the Salonico Army He is a tend to spend 1,609,000,000 reubles, one, of the names of the chief of the great national and Imper director of the Associated News- or more than £230,000,000, at cur (naugural ball, but the younger Mr. Roosevelt will not attend the Canadian towns by the announcer ial scheme on which the Cana in London was, to all who heard dian Government has embarked papers, Ltd. and Northcliffe News rent rates of change. They plan members of his family will
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