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and
EVERYWHERE
Farewell To Marianne.
TUESDAY, APRIL 18,1933,
AMERICA'S SHIPPING
LOSSES
SUBSIDISED COMPETITION
RESENTED
(By Martin Moore.)
AL =
The German caricaturists who' invariably represent France as a dishevelled and somewhat decol- lete Rubenesque figure, armed and atrident and bonneted with the
New Orleans. merchant marine, and fostering Phrygian cap of the Revolution, A few miles up the Mississippi growth without strength. will have to change their model. River from New Orleans is a piti-time like this the policy is doubly For the French Government has ful memorial to America's adven-wasteful; it allows shipping opera decided to scrap the portly ture in State-owned shipping. tors to disregard economics, and "Marianne," whose bust has stood Moored nine abreast along the le- it stimulates superfluous new son in 40,000 public buildings and vee lle rusting, rotting vessels struction while hundred of exist- mairies in France for the past 50 which form part of the idle feet ing ships are idle." years, and to replace it by a young-belonging to the Union States From 1928 up to June, 1931 (the |er, less corpulent, and less martial Government.
latest date for which fugres aro figure
On the map this section of the available), mail contracts were The artist commissioned to exe-river is marked as Nine Mile Point; signed involving the construction cute what is, perhaps, the most but to the people of New Orleans of sixty-nine new vessels, at a cost widely reproduced female figure in it is known as "the Shipping of $300,000,000, in addition to $12, the world (except for the Venus Board's boneyard." This place, j000,000 advanced for the re-better- of Milo) is a young and hitherto and others like it at various Ameri-ment of fifty-two other ships. The obscure sculptor, M. Pierre Pois- can ports, are also the graveyards Construction Loan Fund under the of millions upon millions of dol-Jones-White Act has authorised The discovery of the model for lars raised by American taxpayers, loans totalling $145.131.165. what is claimed to be an ideal re-and lavishly spent by the United How fine is the line which di- presentation of the Republic was States Shipping Board. made accidentally last year by M. In all, the Shipping Board bought from simple subsidies may be Jean Mistler, the Under-Secretary or built a fleet of 2,546 vessels, to-judged from the fact that advances for Fine Arts. At the last Salon talling 14,703,717 tons. For the have been made at rates as low of the Interior Decorators in Paris past seven or eight years it has as per cent. Shipowners who M. Mistler was greatly impressed been selling or transferring that benefit from the loans expect to re- by the photographer of a young fleet to private operators aa fast pay them out of their profits on the woman who had already posed for as possible, until to-day fewer than mail contracts. M. Poisson.
400 ships remain Government pro-) Most of the firms now operating The bust was immediately com-perty.
Shipping Board vessels work un- missioned, and the 40,000 plaster
der what is called "the lump sum casts now being made of the ori But, although the Government is agreement." They receive a stipu- ginal will shortly replace those of retiring from business as a ship-lated Government bounty for each the bust of "The Republic" by In-owner, it continues to subsidiee voyage made, regardless of who- jalbert which has reigned unchal-shipping at a rate which alarms ther their operations have been lenged for half a century. even the most patriotic taxpayers. profitable or not. In addition, tho
800.
Your Daily Smile.
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RESENTED
Unknown Millions.
vides such mall contracts and foans
A prominent New Orleans ship-Shipping Board pays the cost of ping man estimates the total ex-repairs above a certain amount. penditure of the U. S. Shipping| Swelling Bounties.
Board to date at five billion dollars If the agreed bounty should sub- UNSATISFACTORY
(£1,000,000,000 at par). He told sequently appear to the Shipping PHYSICIAN: What you have got me that it was impossible to obtain Board "unjust," it can be varied Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 18, 1933. portant emergency bank bill to do is to give up red meat, smok-any official statement of the public at discretion. One illustration will And then the House by an over-ing and take no liquor. (As patient money spent on the purchase and suffice to show how this discretion whelming majority adopted his prepares to go). Oh, but stop a operation af vessels, on subsidies may be exercised. A certain firm The Pre-moment, you have forgotten my fee. and on loans that are virtual gifts.signed an agreement to operate a sident demanded it, the country PATIENT: Fee! What for should
The Comptroller-General of the Shipping Bourd line of vessels for evidently desired it, and Con-I pay you a fee? I'm not going to United States himself, in reply to a consideration of $3,000 per voy- A study of Mr. Roosevelt's gress obediently answered, like take your advice.
a New Orleans inquiry, answered age. When the agreement came up the jinn of the Arabian Night:
that he was unaware of any record for review as "unjust,” the bounty first week as President may here- "Here am I" This shows that,
of this total expenditure,
paid to this operator was raised to after be required of classes in as the Yankee farmer said,
For the disbursement The chorus girl was out of place
of the $35,000 per voyage. Some "Everything depends. government. It should yield
"You can draw only two .conclu- things can be done as well as in the fashionable gathering and Shipping Board are velled by the much from several different
some other things." It is said she leaned her beautiful form operations of its subsidiary, the siena from an example like that," Fleet Corporation. This Corpora-sald the New Orleans shipowner points of view. One of them, that all this is a great tribute to against a covered wall.
HOSTESS: My dear, you look tion carries on business much as who directed my attention to the and perhaps the most striking, the power of "action" to im-
a private commercial concern, and case. "Either the operator who has to do with the political men-press the popular imagination. just like an old Rembrandt.
GIRL: Is that so? Well, you is not accountable to Congress for agreed to work on a $3,000 basis But it was not haphazard or im- tality of, the American people.)
promptu action. President don't look any too snappy yourself. its use of public funds. Congress knew nothing whatever about his Icarns the operating loss sustained business and was quite unfit to With what
eagerness have Roosevelt evidently came to his
from year to year, without being manage the line, or else he is re- they welcomed the coming difficult questions prepared to
able to question the transactions by ceiving a vastly excessive amount of 2 new man to
RICH UNCLE (a strict Sabba which this money has been spent. of public money now that his boun- the take them up. Even of the Presidency! Their admiration banking crisis he had ample fore-tarian): am extremely sorry to
The last issued statement, coverty has been raised to $35,000." warning. For his rapid de-learn that Eustace is in the habit has been kindled by the firm cisions in other matters, it is of visiting a golf club on the Sub-showed a loss of $9,294.229. That ended June, 1931, ing the year
(Continued on Page 11.) and resolute way in which, clear that he had made himself bath! with high and confident spirit, ready in advance. Although WIFE (brightly): Oh, but he mail contracts, but merely repre- he set his hand to tasks that he had pretty steadily declined doesn't play. He only fust pops over sents the net deficit on operating might have daunted the stoutest to join with Mr. Hoover in an- there for a few drinks and a game the remaining vessels of the State-
nouncing policies and making of bridge! heart.
crash
Taking office amid the public appeals before March 4,
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SPOILING IT.
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DIGGING DOWN DEEP
jeum takes no account of loans and
owned feet, and keeping watch- men on guard over "boneyards" Ifke Nine Mile Point.
Ships Sold As Junk, · Ships that cost the Government
DESIRABILITY OF WAR.
Subject Of Debate At University.
of the country's whole he had not been idle Unofficial- financial system, he moved ly, he was able to collect in-| WIFE: Why, Fred, you've got swiftly and surely to set it up formation, to seek competent ad- again, and the people rose to his vice, to sound out Democratic one hand browner then the other.
HUSBAND (getting sun tanned large sums, and in many cases saw A debate on "War is an undesir support with extraordinary un-country.
leaders in Congress and in the while on holiday with his large very little service, are now being able means of setting internation- Thus when the time family): Can you wonder at sold for trifling prices as junk. A al disputes" will be held by the anfmity. For the time being came for him to strike, his Alice? I've always got one hand little while ago, for instance, some Law and Commerce Society of the party lines were obliterated, weapons were at hand. He was in my pocket, Prominent Republicans, from not simply yielding to the plain-
mer
of the vessels from Nine Mile Hong Kong University in the Point were purchased by Mexico. Union Assembly Room, on Friday, But Mexico had no intention of April 21, at 8.30 p.m.
Mr. Lo Kwee Seong and Mr. Lim amusing them to enlarge her
chant marine: the scuttled the Teng Lim will propose the subject, American ships to make barbour while Mr. Fung Tin Yau and Mr. breakwaters.
Kwik Khik Tjhiang will oppose the Again, in the laat recorded year motion.
JUST TOO LATE CANNIBAL PRINCE: Dad, But Pre-I Iate for dinner?
son,
tive but vague cry that "some- Mr Hoover down, urged the
thing must be done." That country to back up President "something" often turns out to Roosevelt in every way. It be the wrong thing. was a response to courageous]sident Roosevelt had analyzed CANNIBAL KING: Yes, leadership such as we have sel- the pressing needs of the Ad- everybody's eaten. dom seen except in time of war. ministration, and had made up his mind concerning the definite
EVEN STEPHEN
of its activities, the Shipping Board, sold 71 cargo boats-60 of
were bought by the shipbreakers
This acclaim for the new Pre- things that he would recommend. MALE HIKER: I got even with them as scrap. These 60 vessels sident may not last long. Cer-Thus his action, which has been my wife last night. tainly it will not survive undi- so much admired, was not A FEMALE HIKER: How minished into the Congressional nervous and impulsive and ill-that? Ste
News In Brief
was for $622,910; what they originally A Chinese female, Ma: Sau, and cost and how much was lost on her three children, were admitted to vealed to the taxpayer. suffering from the effects of eating
Foreign shipowners who have shark's liver. None of them are: been hit by State-subsidised com- in a serious condition. petition are not alone in resenting
elections of 1984. But as it advised attempt to still public "She hung her shorts on the operating them are facts not re- the Kowloon Hospital, yesterday, stands to-day, it is most instruc-wrought out. This is not pre-her pockets,
clamor, but a plan deliberately end of the bed, so I went through tive regarding the ways in which dicting that all of his proposals the institutions of democracy and remedies will be wise, or can be made to work. What should be accepted on sight. But will those now say who have he has thus far undoubtedly met been week in and week out pro tions of the people.
and even exceeded the expecta-
There was
Facts You Did Not Know.
this bounty, Many Americana Pun Yau-chun, of Tang Loong themselves believe that legitimate Street, Wanchai, was taken to the Government support of national in-Government Civil Hospital by The Danish army is experimenting terests, is being carried beyond all friends, yesterday, suffering from a......
ving to their own satisfaction a wide and legitimate desire for with a phonograph and amplifier car measure, to the detriment of the wound to the head, sustained by a that representative government change and reform. At certain ried on a motor truck to replace United States merchant marine it fall in the kitchen. The condition has broken down in the United periods of political development bands. In leading marching troops, self.state merch
of the patient is not regarded as States? In particular they ex when called upon to alter old it is safe and wise for a ruler,
I have heard much outspoken serious. plained at great and wearisome customs, to say with Lord Mel-been erected in an arid section of here in New Orleans, which is one A large dome shaped building has criticism of the Shipping Board length that it had become im-bourne: "Why can't you let it southern France to provide a water of the chief centres of the board' possible. Lo, get satisfactory legis alone? But America's troubles supply by condensing moisture from activities. Technically, the sale · Hung, Ping-wo, was sentenced to
ROBBER GAOLED
tance given is not a subsidy: It two years imprisonment with hard takes the form of generous build labour, by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Acting ing and reconstruction loans, to Pulane Judge, in the criminal Delicate instrument used by #gether with valuable mail contract sessions, which commenced at the roup of - scientists, measuring the awards. But here, thin, aid in nốt Supreme Court, this morning, for
of light in California reveal- regarded as other than a pure the robbery of $60 from Lo Shing. ed that ocean tides affect the earth's subvention, crust six miles inland.
lation from Congress. Both the were such that they could not the atmosphere. house of Representatives and the let Americans alone. They would be let alone, They would not Senato were pictured as, in the have had no pity for the repose first place, broken up into little of President Roosevelt had quarreling groups, and then so sought it. And the energy and Biyen; to, protracted debate, and chiyalrong leadersidp with obstru
the that nothing good he undertook to set right could be expected to come out of
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accountable for
approval which
remarkable
were still days in the White House bro
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