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The Growth Of Good Will In India
HERE THERE
EVERYWHERE
Hague Court Puzzle
What will Germany's attitude be to the Permanent, Court of Inter- national Justice?
The recent election of officials at The Hague confused the issue mors than ever.
One of the judges of the Court is Herr Schucking. Although Ger- many has withdrawn from the secretariat of the League and from
SATURDAY JANUARY 13, 1934.
AMERICA'S MAD RACE AGAINST TIME
KEYNOTE OF SPEED
AND EFFICIENCY
FOREIGNERS DAZED BY HUSTLE
(By Sir Percival Phillips.)
Chicago, knows that the marcelled and tint-
the I.L.O., Herr Schucking is ovi When the law-geared foreigner éd blonde behind the counter is dently to be allowed to remain. He accustomed to the easy pace of Miss Robinson.
If afflicted with the soda water was elected to the special divisions Europe arrives for the first time in
of the Court that deal with labour the United States he is smitten habit he can stroll the length of a and transport cases.
with a kind of paralysis: Life long marble bar and decide whe
On the other hand Germany has within these frontiera appears to ther to take his drink from the red- no intention in practice of recog-him to be a mad race around an tipped hands of Miss O'Riordan of nising the Court. She has already alarm clock, with no fixed goal in Miss Cassetti.
He must
Witty Barmaids · withdrawn the two cases which she sight but the grave.
The non-alcoholic barmaids car. had brought before it. She has either fall into step and be whirled also bited recollections of the from one day to the next, with in-ry their family names, engraved on Judgment given in the Anschluss or digestion and discontent riding neat metal brooches fastened to Customs Union case with Austria, him like twin furies, or lag behind their blouses. They are quick in Among lawyers it is a familiar and become an outcast on the rim repartee, but by no means rapid in | behaviour. The bright jester who gibe that the adjective "interna-of time.
Business men are already at suggests that their addresses tional". in the title of the Court! qualifies the word "justice" rather their desks at an hour when he ex- should be added to their identity pects to find charwomen sweeping dises will receive a frozen stare or than court.”
jup yesterday's debris. Before he a metallic "Oh yeah?”
Your Daily Smile.
CAUGHT.
“I hear Jinks is always traps for his wife.”
has break-fasted the streets - are But other aspects of the craze for filled with an army of workers speed soon become disagreeably, pressing feverishly towards type-obvious.
writers and tabulating machines. Meala are bolted in a way that setting They swarm into quick-lunch cafe-shows no mercy for the délicate terias like ravenous locusts while machinery dedicated to food. The sup-¡his morning is yet young, and strip intent occupants of public restaur- the platters clean before a low- auta rush in to re-fuel; they never geared appetite can digest, even really lunch or dine. They can be the menu.
seen bowed over the latest time-
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"How awful! Jealousy. I pose?"
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driverom, a thousand miles away, in stage. Breakfast in a marathon, exchange for two pieces of paste- and dinner, with its inevitable board..
foundation of iced, water, drunk "No, the fool had it in his hip Iced drinking-water comes from copiously, very often a dance stilr
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Taxis that defy the law of gravi-saving invention, a form of circu Jackson was waiting for his wife ty rock him on, the verge of eterlar china trough divided into com- outside a big shop in the West nity. Morning newspapers great partments which. bring the mal The China Mail Indian politicians to assume re
a poorly him the night before.
ingredients of the midday ration sponsibility of that description. End of London when
Such discoveries. In his first day simultaneously within range, as well as a further proof of the dressed man came up to him.
This is "Could you spare me a shilling, ashore build for him a very sub-
called a "club plate" stantia! nightmare.
luncheon;, a club indeed, with Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan, 13, 1934, decrease of ill-will and suspicion Peninsula Hotel.
in their dealings with the British sir?" he asked, Administration.
The New Deal in speed further which to flog the laggard through In the sphere Feeling in a festive mood, Jack- of industry and trade, which was son reached in his pocket and drew complicates his mental processes his hasty meal, Ordered by a num by yielding certain surprises of aber on the food-combination card, so deeply trenched upon by the out threepence.
it is snatched deftly, all hot and manifestations of political" dis "I've only threepence in change," pleasing nature.
Interpreted in terms of service quite appetising, from an aperture content, 1933 has seen the virtual he said regretfully.
"Well," said the beggar eagerly, it compels his admiration. He gives in the serving batch--I suspect "India in 1931-32" the new disappearance of the anti-British volume of the invaluable series boycott, described in the review gave me that and pay me the rest his hotel the soiled linen accumul- that a moving platform for quick
during later. I'll take a chance on you ated
1 week's voy.assembly is concealed behind and lof annual reports prepared by now published as "the chief as bein' honest."
4ge with the modest request brought to rest by a cog in the the Indian Bureau of Public In-well as the most successful fen-
that it be returned, if pos-chain of waitresses trained in the formation with the Govern-ture of the Congress programme."
[sible, within three days. Lo! the mass transportation of vitamins. ment's authority. has just been Above all, the ratification by In-
THE CATCH. ··
same night it is found, spotless He finds it depressing to watch rublished. By an interesting dían votes In the Central Legis- Jean: "Mabel says she likes the and still warm from the iron of an his fellow-men in a better-class departure from precedent, this lature," just" year ago, of the tone of Percy's voice. ?JA 77! A comprehensive account of In- Ottawa Agreement has been fol
Jane:"Yes, she thinks there's expert, in orderly array upon his restaurant consume thell portiongi
at a rate that lenyes him-far bee dien affairs is not on this occa-lowed by plain signs that both a ring in it.”
Clothes from the presser that hind. There will be parties of ision contined to the financial India and Great Britain are al- year from April to March, but is ready reaping the advantage of
are expected before dinner reap. tense business men, grimly absorb- pear within the hour. Luggage for ed in their plates, and mixed carried on to the end of Decem-the preferences thereby establish- Policeman: "Why are you stop a distant city vanishes, as if by groups with a social tinge, but st ber of 1932. It is thus brought|ed- a fact to which their res- ping You can't park here."
magis, from his room in response bordinating conversation to the to include the decisive checking|pective Trade Commissioners -Driver: "I've got a 'flat tyre."
to a telephone call and arrives a task of eating in a hurry Half a of the latest civil disobedience have borne witness. If to this ran over a bottle about a mile few minutes after him, in another hour carries them to the coffee campaign, the settlement of the be added the complete soundness back." communal problem the most of the financial position, and the "Couldn't you see it and perilous uf all the dif-notable proofs given of the ex-round it?" ficulties in the way of cellence of Indian credit, the re- agreed measures of Constitu- cord of 1933 may well he regard-
pocket."
Table Conference stage the better conditions that had of the approach to such agree come into view by the end of ment. It is, therefore, a record the preceding year. of marked improvement in the Indian situation. It is of the deepest interest, then, to take the end of this record as a start- ing-point, and to note the fur ther progress of the encouraging Apparently one of the chief tendency which had already de Socialist grievances against the clared itself, after a period of finance of the Unemployment Bill acute apprehension, Just upon now before Parliament is that the year ago. During 1983, it may Insurance Fund in required to pay be said, the process of the rea- back what it has borrowed from The front half toration of order, of the growth the Exchequer. The figure now section of a new.davenport can be through. He decides to risk it, of political good will, of religious stands at £112,000,000, and it will moved out so that four persons can ask for the number, and prepares Wants Simple, Human appeasement, of hard practical take forty years to discharge the use the davenpor work at the task of Constitution liability in half-yearly instalments card table al planning, of economic better of £2,750,000, Contributor OW ment has not been checked. The unbora, say the Socialists, will English builders are Government's award as to com therefore be paying off debts in- ing with sabestos munal representation in the pro-curred on behalf of the unemployed mobiles, drying posed-new Legislatures has been during the great depression. So, ducing plates of the material that accepted as the only practicable frideed, they will, but all who enter can be enamelled, solution of a problem that Indians any insurance. fúnd assume were admittedly, unable to settle ability towards the debts incurred for themselves. Since its issue by it prior to their entry. Much of camphor from
A method for making, syn last March the White Paper has this debt was raskly incurred with-acid, common been the basis of full and con- out thought of the manner or even been developed structive discussion in the Par- of the duty of repayment, and with Univerally lamentary Joint Committee, with no safeguards' that payments should the invaluable co-operation of be strictly confined to bona-fide Indian public men. As regards cases. It is also to be
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law and order, the last disobe that not a penny of this dience campaign has not merely incurred in res ended in utter collapse Mr. benefits but solely in respect of in- Gandhi's final despairing effort surance. The great
to keep it alive, if only in ciple, has led to a definite diation of his authority by
| large="section" of the
party, which is now bent working the proposed
tion. The imposed by which the auth
armed with special
the combating
||been given
Jenietme
the
how-
ever, of requiring its repa repu that future Governments,
tempted to borrow will be rossed that the debt not dalshed on with when the Eborrowed: la
a special top to avoid the delay of nearer death, bringing it is a jug. He poste his When on tour he shudders in hla What door. His telegrams are received car of a Pullman express when, at letters in a chute just outside his arm-chair in the luxurious lounge
DJINN. Friend: "Hey, Aladdin have you got to drink?” ⠀
by a smiling young woman at a half-past five in the afternoon," Aladdin (rubbing his famous desk which is never closed and shot white jacketed negro introduces his lamp): "131 find out. There ought by pneumatic tube to a transmit-Old Man river bass voice into to be some djinn in the house,"
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Everybody's Doing. It
Armamental arithmetic.
Facts You Did Not Know.
the centre
ting office.
Efficient Telephones
He wishes to telephone to friend in a city as far away as Zurich is from London. Memories of leisurely trunk calis in his own
the restful scene with the unples- sant news: "Dinnah is now being [served; frat call,"
(Continued on Page 3)
country haunt him as he debates CHEVALIER'S GREAT
whether he can afford the half hour or more of waiting to be put
to sit around to read the evening paper,
he is comfortably settled in alongside the telephone. ("through" Thirty seco
sunced to connect him with the wanted number,
AMBITION
Role In Pictures,
HIS DUTY TO PUBLIC
Hollywood, California. If he goes to a bank to draw. Maurice Chevaller is finished" |money, fortified with passport, and with roles depicting him as a glð. other credentials, he expects a mild dy, wine-bibbing lady killer. He third degree and an Interval de- prides himself on being a son of voted to red tape. Before he can the people" and he wants to got produce his papera a cashier, ils down to simple, human' parts, to minated by the conventional "good-play, a "common sort of chap," will" grin, has honoured his signa-I have never sympathized ture and slammed bundle of with frothy, artificial parts," he banknotes into his hand. He goes says, “although as a good trouper away foaling that the speed with who obey's order. I have many of Ex which the transaction has been them to my credit. Highly suc um-concluded is almost indecent and cessful at the box-office, marvel-
an insult to the highest traditions ously directed and photographed, they were never to my complete liking,
FOR
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On his way out he is surprised to see bank oficials, from the highest to the lowest, planted in full
the public around, the
floor: like
"I am just one of the people, not a prince,” he says in justí? - fication of his change of mind, yn
I feel that it is my duty 187 play roles my kind of people un |derstand-roles they will not re- sent, and that may prove an In spiration to them, or helps thems
solve their daily problems
real life I have never
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