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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1933.
PERILOUS PLAYBOY OF THE WEST
MR. J. H. THOMAS CALLS DE VALERA'S BLUFF
Bix-46
"IMPOTENT
Mrs. Howe, wife of President Roosevelt's right-hand man, landed lat. Liverpool recently on a
weeks' visit to England. Her son, who has just graduated with honours at Harvard, arrived before her. Colonel Howe is in atten; dance on the President.
States.
BOASTER" REVEALED
(By A. A. B.)
ཐཱ་
im-
It is
London. have agreed to bury the hatchet and Mrs. Howe was born at Hartley,
There is in the Irish situation a to fuse. Dutch separatium in Her father War an Englishman who went from Stockport to the mixture of the ludicrous and the perial unity.
criminal, which shows how thoroug- If there is a member of the Em- Colonel Howe is also of English Mr. J. M. Synge understood his pire. that might be forgiven for extraction, but his American con-countrymen when he wrote that de-cherishing dreams of independence nections go back to the days of the vastating natire "The Playboy of the it is the group including the Trans- vaal Republic, the Orange Free Pilgrim fathers. He is a Massa-Western World." chusetts man. One of his So long as Christy is believed to State, Natal and Cape Colony, to ancestors was a general on the have murdered bis father, the pea- give them their old names. colonists' side at Bunker's Hill and santry welcome him with affectionate only 30 years since we closed the fought against Lord Howe, the Bri-awe and feed him with milk and war, which many thought and still tish General,
bacon. When, however, it is disthink was waged without justifies- covered that he has not murdered tion and which provoked the 'bitter- Fighting The Gunmen
his father, but only hit him on the ness which all ware engender, leav The Colonel has not been in Eng-head, they all turn on him and drive Ing as a legacy a British party and land since 1910-the date of his him with blows and curses from a Dutch party. first meeting with President Roose their doors.
Our policy of compensating the [velt.
So long as the Irish believed that Boers for fighting them was not so The two men met in the Albany de Valera could really injure the mad as it seemed at the time. Legislature when Roosevelt was a British Empire by repudiating their would have been well if the spirit State senator and Howe lobby allegiance and their debts he was at of Vereeniging had been present at
Europe would reporter. They are now Louis and the top of the tree. But when Mr.Versailles: Franklin to each other.
J. H. Thomas called his bluff, and teen a different place to-day. The Colonel, who was for years the Irish realised that De Valera
The first fruits of our policy of permanent secretary of the Na- could do England no harm, but that conciliation appeared in the Euro- tional Crimes Association, is now he was an impudent and impotent pean War, when Botha and Smuts anxious to get a Bill through Con-bouster, who was ruining Ireland, appeared as our loyal and militant gress Torblading the transfer by his pretensions collapsed like mail of revolvers and machinehouse of cards. guns from one State to another..
This task, whith sounds simple enough, may be difficult.
Your Daily Smile
De Valera's Bluff Called
AL
It
have
allies. It is due largely to the mili- tary genius of Smuts that we ex- pelled the Germans from East and West Africa with so little difficulty.
So true it is, as Lincoln said, that it is due to his ability as a states- you cannot fool all the people all the man that Smuts has been able to scribed his Department's plans
Lime. The Dail has at last found carry the fusion of the old Boer and The China Mail
for the creation of a special di-
Jout that de Valera is a dogmatic British parties. vision of experienced crime in-
WHOOPEE
demagogue whose hyma of hate has Incompetent Celts Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 7, 1933.vestigators to co-operate with
Juot only become monotonous, but is The resourceful daughter now producing results the
South Africa has not received a State authorities and of a mo-
reverse of
tenth part of the boons and bene- bile police under his own direc- cxcuses herself for not getting to what he promised, and only in-i tion to hunt down the criminals. bed till the early hours of the juries to the Irish Free State. Bets which the British Parliaments have showered upon ireland. The Mr. Keenan
asked the morning by saying that she was renounces his allegiance to the racial ambitions and cultural differ crucial question whether this sitting up for grandma.
Mr. Roosevelt's War On Kidnappers.
Was
In Washington the first sitting new organisation would take cog- NOT "MUCH EFFORT.
ما
investigate
which
A doctor declares that
has commenced of a Committee nisance only of cases in of the United States Senate ap-State boundaries had been cross- pointed
the ed. He made the very reason-British climate is trying. It is "racketeering" evil, with special able explanation that his De-great pity that it does not try reference to the crime of kidpartment could not know whether little harder. napping that in recent years has the Federal law had or had not
attained
to such a detestable been infringed until the case Hint for. Politicians,
Sovereign, and the British Empire)
still stands, and instead of being ences of Natal, the Transvaal, the sustained by the applause of the Orange Free State and Cape Colony the New World, America and the Do-are greater than those which have been, so sedulously kept alive be- a minions laugh at or ignore him.
Ireland.
He tries political robbery, by in-tween the North and the South of tercepting the instalments of purThe difference in the results fies chase money due under the Wind-in the fact that the British, Ameri- ham Act. What is the result?
It
prominence. The problem of was complete. "We are going The quickness of the "and" de-is true that the dutica imposed by Cans, Dutch, and Germans that
racketeering" is an old one, nor after them," he declared. When, cetees the "Why"
is its investigation by Federal with the co-operation of the
*
our Government on Irish cattle do people the South African republics are men of commonsense; whereas not yet equal the stolen annuities, the Irish Free State is inhabited by but they may be increased, and Irish Celts, who have now
trium-
Argentine and to Canada.
but govern themselves,
De Valera Fears I.R.A. Soon it will be realised that mil- These questions have their com- lions of Irishmen are living in Eng-{mercial as well as their sentimental land and Scotland on the dole, and significance. They are mistaken when our electora discover this, they who ignore the antics of de Valera
authority a new thing. In most State authorities, the criminal The Way Things Go. of the big cities a large propor-{} was laid by the heels, the matter)
In the old days the head of the meanwhile, de Valera is forced to hantly proved to the world that present us with his livestock at they can do anything, write books, tion of the trading activity fal of jurisdiction could be settled. carried on subject to the levying This is a promising beginning, family used to wonder if that fel- prices ruinous to his own graziers of blackmail by criminal gangs and may in itself go far to make low came around the house because and helpful to the British Exche and newspapers, and make speeches,
he wanted Angelina or Marjorie quer and to the export trade of the who threaten to make the con-kidnapping a too dangerous duct of a man's business impos-trade. But Mr. Roosevelt is un-nowadays he wonders if he wants sible by the use of violence, not derstood to intend, further, to to sell a car, a vacuum cleaner, or stopping short of murder. It ask Congres for a Law under insurance. has been endured because it which States may surrender thetr could not be cured, so long as the authority in kidnapping casca to
to the Federal Government, A German actress In Hollywood may insist on Irish labourers being or laugh at the solemnity of the alliance between criminals and! corrupt local politicians made the which could then act without re- refuses to have her legs fimed. deported to their native soil. In Blue Shirts. police useless for the suppression gard to the question of boun- This makes it very difficult for the short, the de Valera playboy In of the evil-a atate of things on daries, or of overlapping Juris critics to decide whether she has turning out to be a costly and dan-
gerous 'pet. which President Hoover's Wick-dictions. In any case, the forma- any histrionic ability. ersham Commission reported in tion of a strong police corps d'- elite, imbued with the spirit
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HIDDEN TALENT
LUMP OF LIFE
Ireland's - Three · Armies:
Continued on Page '10)..
Recalled.
the plainest terms two years ago of the Federal Services, is a "G-grab!" growled the song present three armics. There are
There are, I believe, in Ireland at BOY KILLED BY TOY The payment for "protection,
MOTOR-CAR. moreover, does usually insure bold innovation in which Ameri-writer, as he along his wife the Civic Guards, called in most peaceful conduct of business. cans will see the promise of an through the french window and countries the Police, who wear black Dancer's Tragic Death But for the kidnapping "racket" ending to the terror that hangs, tried once again to settle down and shirts. There is the Irish Republi there has never been any such as things, are, over many homes: write a line to rhyme with "Love can Army, recruited from America, easy tolerance. The continuance
le the one flower that never fades." who wear red shirts. There is the
blue-shirted army, started
Paris by Facts You Did Not General O'Duffy, who swears he The tragic death of Isadora Dun-
will take no part in any civil war, can, the dancer, is recalled, by a fatal :' Know,
but la interested in electoral reform accident to a six-year-old boy."
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Reviving Emigration,
Canada would seem to be thinking. once more of encouraging, immigra-| tion.
the rising of a tide of violent In- dignation against the most mean and cruel of all forms of extor-1 tion. Twelve, States have pass- ed laws making kidnapping pun- Ontario announced that his Govern-manufacture of toys has been open-a suspicion that if a red shirt were car a scarf he was wearing caught
Last month, the Premier of Norway's first factory Ishable, If the Court should 80 ment were prepared to discussed at Trondheim.
decide, by death. và Last month
in Missouri that sentence Was
Iplans for bringing out a large con-
for the tion in parliamentary reform, I have | While, he was driving a toy motor-
to attack him he would hit, back in the spokes of one of the wheels: The three armies of the Irish Free and strangled him, actually passed for the first time tingent of British familles to be A German fire engine extin-State are united by a common na His grandfather found him dead.
settled on the Crown lands in the} on a convicted offender. But north of the province. Even more guishes flames with streams of a tional bond, the readiness to fr at on his back in the car. local police inefficiency, or worse, significant, however, is the declara- dust that does not injure articles one anether's throats. has allowed the crime to flourish, tion of the President of the C.P.E. with which It comes in contact.. I have seen the results of Lord through, her scarf becoming" "en-
generally speaking, unchecked. Montreal that in, his view the
Isadora Duncan lost her life
Salisbury's “20 years of resolute tangled in the wheels of a motor-
DRIVE
The armies of Irish patriola “Inadequate Bathing prowl round one another like-eats;
Suits Banned.
Lisbon.
The cry has been for Federal time is "opportune for Canada to The Inventor of a new safety government between 1886 and car which she was driving on the action, directed as it is by enter upon a deunite policy; of im razor claims that, it cuts with cor- 1006, when Ireland reached a peak Riviera-Beuter stronger and cleaner hands. The migration, particularly from Great rect diagonal strokes no inatter in of prosperity and contentment. appalling strocity of the kidnap Britain.”
never before or since enjoyed.. And These are cheering what, position it may be held. ping and murder of Col. Lind words, as showing that leading men
we see to-day the results of surren- bergh's Infant son last year led the Dominion are making ready A Norwegian scientist has ad healing of the feud of centuries, so
der to rebels and maskanina, "the PORTUGAL'S PURITY to a first change in the law of the for a turn in the long tide of de-vanced a theory that the more loudly trumpeted by Radical Idea- Land Abduction from ons State pression In 1980 the Dominion mants of glaciers forecast the logues. into another was made a Federal Government closed down many of its weather and regulate" drouths and offence, with a maximum penal- special immigration offices in this floods, ty of life imprisonment. But country. Of late more persona havë the Department of Justice was been returning to the United King Insufficiently, equipped for tom dom from Canada than emigrating needed police work. President to that country. Mr. Beatty op 2400,000, Roosevelt has tackled the matter timism should not be misinterpreted, ap land with characteristic energy, Last and begærefully qualified his as far month Mr. J. B. Keenan was ap-general statement by adding:
ng the pointed a special saxistant to the "resulta might be expected in a year length United States Attorney Gmáral or two from plana See Inter-Empire painte for dealing with this problem; migration mow (balng-world out in last and it was Mr. Kochan whose the Ualled “Kingdom "That mich evidence was, heard by the Sers plans do not always some apt to ate Committee That evidence. Iplainly indicates that he does not
Intend to let any technicaliti Interfere with the buccessful: Leunk of his campaign.
and de Valera is in his element, arguing with his Cabinet about the meaning of the Safety Act passed by These settlers, who took the Cosgrave Government, had dis "inadequate?" bathing suits at under a scheme launched puting with characteristic subtlety Portuguese bathing resorts will be back, as 1922, hays been urg. Whether O'Duny can be dealt with severaly, according to an
casos for years,”", and at banned, and what
happen if he official announcement, onderde
"The" wearing of any, coe!
a
Royal Commission was 47- mapa his-fingera early in 1981. It reported were ring
in scathing termi" on the mbat
Irish Bag
the
I should be which." by -its-'scantiness o
Bone dadency, and Lggood inate” is banned
by the announcement, die de
fallenou of the parency is contrariitor,
More We Thess, hrowing), habits amongab turn from täis (womans visitors to Estoril of wear- sonismaq, to ing only, tranka (and a brassiere for coman from South; bathing, hat: caused” much local 16- ertzog," and ", Emida dignation--Kouder,