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HERE, THERE
and.....
EVERYWHERE
Efficient "Robby"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1933.
PAMINE'S RETURN TO RUSSIA-III
FAMINE'S AFTERMATH IN RUSSIA
CORN IN FIELDS
WHERE
PEOPLE HAVE DIED
(By An Expert Observer.)
Miss Frances M. Robinson is "Robby" to Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, head of the N.R.A. and "Bobby" to some of the Washington news writers. "She is my manager," Baye General' Johnson. Ay a mal- ter of fact she is his secretary whe always' goes with him on his air
This article forms the final sce-had been quite favourable for the trips from Washington to Cleve.
tion of a report made after an in-summer crops, frequent rains help land or Detroit, as the case mus dependent survey late in May of the ing the growth even on badly till be. She seems to enjoy the longfar-spreading groin area of the ed lands. But weeds are already hours and strenuous work. and Northern Caucasuë,
appearing on lande indifferently when slie and the General have What strikes one in all the vii-worked, and will soon over-power few minutes to themselves when traveling, they take time off to entlages passed in this agricultural the seed-the more so because of crab-meat ravigote. "Robby" is region is the small proportion of lack of workers with strength
They evidently have lesaj enough to do weeding still in her early twenties, reddish-men
power of resistance than women. The State farms alone were in a. haired, inclined to pluvipness,|
and die more quickly from the position to fulfil to a certain extent active, aggressive, shrill-voiced.
the State programme of sowing. famine. witty. and, of course, a most com- had been petent secretary. She General Johnson's secretary in private life, and, he took her with him when he went to Washington to run the N.R.A.
Facts You Did Not Know.
r
A SINGLE AFFECTION They
were walking along the beach together. Suddenly the moon came out from behind, the coludas and cast its full glow upon them.
"Dearest," she said, gazing into his eyes, “does the moon affect the
tide?"
He sighed romantically. "No, darling; only the untied," he replied.
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The women who haye. children] But even on such show-farms as die sonner than others; therefore Gigant, and Verblud, the sown single women predominate in the fields are already becoming over- villages which have suffered most grown with weeds.
The State farms, too, are wonder- severely. In Kaminogradska the collective farms consist almost ex-ing how they will get harvesters clusively of women.
this year, owing to the shrinkage
pro-
The children's refuges produes of the neighbouring populations. an especially painful impression. They will probably be obliged to Mothers unable to feed their chil-tring men in from distant dren take them to these refuges; vinces. but as they also have little food, the children, already crippled by tamine, are little by little BUC- cumbling to death by starvation. horses is also formidable. Tractors,
Farm Work By Soldiers The problem of obtaining enough
in so far as they can be effectively
are sufficient only for used.
Those
Since the statements of propa- ganda contrast so strikingly with reality, the Government has ceased small part of the field work. The to deluge the collectires with the number of horses dwindled during exhortations that were so prolife last winter-and the ensuing spring te such an extent that there now in former years. Endeavous in
remains nothing but a miserable fan Bolshevist enthusiasm have that goods; conversely. needs
been replaced by measures of bra. remnant of the former number. In Showing Them How
1 and are social, intellectual, artistic,
Tishbeck, between March tal coercion. Anybody leaving! moral, etc., are practically un- "Carge." нnid the farmer who
work without permissions arrested. May 15 of this year. 50 per cent
of the horses perished. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1933 limited and the result of satisfy-nd turned his farmhouse into a
ing them is usually to develop a guest-house for holiday-makers, "I Prisoners Led To Forced Labour that remain are in such a deplor- further need." What is this but wish you'd have your meals
Groups of prisoners being led to able state owing to lack of fodder, to say that the way of escape yourself instead of with the visi- forced labour by armed men are aand such extreme efforts are de- from the depression of un- tors, if you don't mind.”
Amanded of them during the fleld common sight in the villages, employment is to raise the stan- His hefty son set his jaws
work that a further decrease special system has now been es dard of civilization of the great fantly.
Lablished by which compulsary their numbers is inevitablo.
Cows are now used 2# draught labour is imposed on members of the collectives who, through phy-animals, a thing hitherto entirely aical weakness or unwillingness, dɔ] unknown in the Northern Cau
make satisfactory
The collectives gather in progress tasUB.
even cows not yet collectivised" with their allotted tasks.
But the food shortage is felt for purposes of field work. Natur even by those in charge of the ally their physical condition and work. know
which milk-yielding capacities rapidly de Cases in
to teriorate. agronomists sent from Rostov direct the spring agricultural work
Children, Men, And Machines.
A cheery smile, a welcome, Like all the rest before.
de-
Kood
But when the President risita
He comes in via air,
not
in
A large percentage of fields will
in the villages were given nothing remain untilled this year. A large: Aal number still have been worked but a pound of bread a day.
Professor Hersch, of Geneva, mass of men and to reap from "Why? Isn't my society has drawn attention to some the inventive genius that has enough for them, then?" he asked. consequences, not generally re-ninde machines a harvest of cul- The farmer shook his head. cognized, of the decline of the ture and refinement? Humaal "Now, now, my son, it's nothing Thirth-rate in Western countries. energy no longer required for like that." he returned quietly: The assumption that a reduction the satisfaction of primary phy-"you're good enough for them, but of the number of candidates for sical needs should be re-enlisted your appetite sets them a terrible places in industry would tend to in the service of the mind and example." reduce unemployment for the spirit. May it be, as Professur
that not Hersch
suggest, oncoming generations has
the When the President Calls. taken into full account the effect watchword of the present, asi Most visitors are greeted on consumption of the reduction well as of the future, in the pro- With kanh trued on the door, of the proportion of consumers duction of the less material to producers which the fall in things should be "from quantity the birth-rate causes. Professor to quality"? Professor Hersch Hersch meets this deficiency, and has been concerned chiefly with concludes that steady decrease Western civilization, where it has Alfred frecalling Sir of the consuming population in seemed relation to the producing popula-Ewing's words to the British tion must bring about growing Association last year) that man junemployment. His conclusion is.was ethically unprepared for the
af
ali bounty course, conditional on
that the command of ather things remaining equal. Nature has put into his hands. If there are fewer mouths to Sir Josiah Stamp has suggested. Feed and fewer backs to clothe that much more could be done to. H. H. in the Albany Knicker- vince, only 25 per cent. of
then the minimum: requirements make society ready to absorb the of food and clothing will be less. benefits of the quickened tempo Children and elderly people, as a of science; and the immediate rule, consume and do not pro- outcome is to be the considera- Father-"But my dear Dorothy duce. The "economically active" tion by the Council of the Asso-your husband awes me ure the young and mature adults clation of what is possible to co-money. I don't think he should who are at present exceptionally ordinate scientific and social expect me to lend him more." numerous in the community-progress. Such an inquiry must Daughter "Well, father, he has times a little better, sometimes after. Along with the decline in the extent beyond merely material to get it somewhere and he has a little worse. The stretches of land birth-rate there has also been a well-being and the language of certain sentiment about keeping adjoining the Caucasian railway decline in the death-rate, and its report must be partly in his creditors in the family.'
the number of elderly people has terms of ethics. increased; but the decrease of
young dependents has been far
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greater than the increase of the The Day Of The British elderly. It must be borne în mind that the decline of the
Motor-Car
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Your Daily Smile
A new railway station in Milan, Italy, is equipped with an elevator upper birth-räte has been general in What is gratifying about the that lifts mall cars to an Western Europe for some time Motor Show being held at Olympia floor for the convenience of postal and that in recent years there is that it is not only the best show employes. has also been a rapid decline in ever held in London, but the bent the South and East of Europe. ever held in the world. The Bri-
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a result, some of these officials de- casually and unsatisfactorily dur
ing the last few years, and as Berted.
The progress of agricultural work result weeds-especially the moro in the North Caucasus is natural-vicious kinds are rampant. They ly greatly affected by the famine. form large groups of prickly plants In the thinued populations of the like hedges, which can be eliminat- villages there are not enough mened only by very intensive and re- work. Considerable gular weeding, for which men are 10 do the areas of arable land remain Kro-no longer available.
most As mortality from famine is polkino and Krasnodar, the
Pro-bound to continue, and as the nura- fertile parts of the Kuban
the era of draught animals will also arable land was sown by the be-be further and further reduced, the ginning of May. The sowing, how-problem will arise as to who will gather the harvests. In villages ever. was stil continuing.
where the land was tifled and sows Weeds Choking The Seeded Land last autumn, but where the in In other places the situation habitants have since died out, the was more or less the same, some-land is even now without a mas
line were almost completely own.
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(Continued on Page 6).
. It is probable that special efforts WIRELESS LICENSES
stret were applied to these two
NOT TAKEN OUT.. ches of land, visible as they are
to tourists travelling to the water Two R.AS.C. Members ing-places.
Fined $15 Each,
During last autumn's agricul- tural work the population had not
yet been reduced by famine. There- For being in possession of wire- fore the porcentage of winter.crops less sets without na approbriate
Operated by a gasoline motor, a in the total area of Willed lands is license from the Postmaster General, Moreover, last Mr. E. J. P. Ként, of 8D. Block, In the United States and wher-tish motorcar at the moment is "on portable pump that forces water to unusually, high, ̧:-
Western civilization ex; top," It is not to be surpassed in considerable heights has been in winter was especially favourable Military Quarters, Kennelly Road, tends the same movement can be any single class; and in some it has vented that is mounted on a fratne for winter crops. The autumn and Mr. J. Hough, of 7A Block, sowing, undertaken in good time, Military Quarters, Kennedy Road, traced. The facts to be conno rivals, whether in spoed, rella-like a wheelbarrow,
was maintained natlefactorily dur[both of the Royal Army Service sidered are therefore common to bility, safety factors, beauty of de- most if not all, industrial coun-sign, or in price. The British manu- A radio station that has been ing the winter. Certain resulta Corps, were fined $15 each by Mr. bik; "Among suggestions of facturer has learnt his lesson, and opened in Argentina about 18 miles were even obtained from land E. W. Hamilton at the Central Police Both defendants admitted the differing merit for correcting the economic conditions abroad are in from Buenos Aires uses two towers which was sown belatedly and un-Court this morning. economic effects of this change his favour. Everywhere the call is 700 feet high, reported to be the satisfactorily, and which in por- in the balance of consumers and for cheap, good cars which can be tallest in the world. producers-accentuated, as it is run at the lowest possible cost; and
by the improved technique of since taxes on motor fuel are now production Professor Hersch very much the same in amount in
mal times would have Fielded n6 offence.. crops under such conditions..
The spring sowing occupies a amall area in comparison with the
POPPY DAY FUND. M MANU Further Contributions.
gives first place to a redistribu- all countries, the most economical scarcely even a solitary British total area sown being carried out tlon of population and capital cars to run are those which are most motor-car during their travela. only by the collectives, who genera)- between the various branches of eagerly sight after In thess To-day's Board of Trade Returns ir received from the Btate a loan Previously Acknowledged economie life. He builds on the Great Britain has undoubtedly led tell a different story. For the first of seeds, mostly eats. The indi- Street Sales Kowloon well-known fact that all human the way. That why the produc nine months of this year, compared vidual peasants, in so far as they M. B. B
Kowloon Union Church needs are not equally elastic: the tion of Briting car for export has with the same period of 1982 the worked at all, usually, sowed small I Casati Eng., Kongmoon... Jamount of bread required to increased by 68 per cent. British value of exports of British motor quantities of, maize and su
alley hunger has a certain limit, manufacturers are gaining new cars, motor vehicles, and motor me and, that very, inte on account of
the Cou-cessories, apart. from rubber tyres fuck, of draught, animala, į s but there is no limit to the num-markets everywhere on
Shortage of Labo ber of books to satisfy the in- tinent of Europe and overseam and tubes, is up þy almost £2,000,
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