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Catch Phrases
What Ho, She Bümpel" laken from one of the best known songs of Mr. Harry Castling, the music- hall composer, who recently died, makes pae wonder what has become or the English "catch phrase."
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1934.
CANADA'S ROMANTIC
BACKWOODS
WATER POWER SERVES THE GREAT CITIES
In Victorian times one heard "Does your mother know you're [Mr. out " "Not for Joseph," "There's air," "Get your hair cut" "Did you ever catch a weasel asleep?" and many more, right down to the "How's your father?" of Mr. Harry Tate.
VOYAGE
OF ADVENTURE.
(By Julian Duguid.)
'Duguid recently
to
visited | powerstation and the boy took Canada Tram East to West. charge. Above the roar of dam and came into intimate contact and turbine he explained the exact, with its people under all condi-voltage and horse-power, the exact tions of work and life.] cost of the immensely high. hall which enclosed, the, four direct-drive Within half an hour's journey of generators. As we climbed the The place of the English catch Ottawa one may witness the appli-iron stairway to the roof, he drew phrase seems to have been taken by cation of two great forces: water attention to the overhead electric American slang. America ures power and the healing strength of cranes operating the gate-holata... such equally meaningless catch- peace. Both are abundantly ex- and quoted the time necessary phrases an "So's your old man, ploited by Canadians, who
are raise the sluices. and "And was his face red," but practical people.
And, once outalde, in the sunlight .... most of her slang, such as as "Oh
One Saturday morning a friend on the dam's girth, he pointed to yeah." "I should smile," and "I'll came for me in his car. tell the world," is merely a varied was his son, a brown child of 14, of posite hill on the first lap of their Inside the cables which breasted the op- negative or affirmative.
Paris long had its catch phrase cane call "rangy."
the lean resilent build which Amari-journey through forest and plain in "As-tu vu Lambert?" but it is with suspicion, for
He eyed me and swamp to Toronto, 300 miles
the young away. some years since that was heard.
His face was flaming while Canadian is perfectly assured that he talked... This, to him, was the Englishmen wear monocles, use authentic flavour of romance; gold-headed canes, and say "haw, superior to that provided by the old haw!"
French explorers, who portaged their canoes where now the spray
Your Daily Smile.
PAL CAPONE An American official says that the ex-gangster chief is one of the most popular men in the prison.
Bang Went Saxpence
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bathing.
HOW HE GOT HER:
Recalling Oxford's Skyline
Nor can we blame him. Canada
A birch-bark canoe, lashed to the rose from the checked fall, roof, explained his anxiety. He was terrified lest I spoil his week-tion is rightly conducted on practi is a new country. Canadian educa end; but he was killingly polite.
water
underpopulated country, whose de- There is gold to Northern wastes;
stiny is ahead. They were be torn from
if
We slid out of town by the big cal lines. In England, where the A man was operated on recently |
land is developed to saturation in a London hospital for the re-steel bridge over the Ottawa River. moval of a sixpence that he had On the further side we stopped and point, we may afford the nicetics of
study. swallowed. Sixpence is sixpence looked back, There, on the edge, But the Canadian is reared in an These days.
of a sheer cliff, were the Parlia- difference between themselves. All. The China fail
ment Buildings, the grey those engaged in production are Two Schools of Thought
curling 300ft below. encouraged to regard themselves Some schoolboys go in for all-built on "chateau" lines. tall and Hong Kong, Friday, February 9, 1934as the servants of the State, which the-year-round
Some long, well-bred, with bronze pin-power-plants to be set up in the is there to intervene only "where don't even go in for all-the-ear-nacles turned green by the weather.
Mackenzie basin, 80 that electric private initiative is lackng or in-round' bathing,
current In the centre was the dome of the
may warm the Arctic sufficient, or where the political in-
Library.
Ocean; machines to be constructed. terests of the. State are involved." |
The whole skyline looked as
so that prairie grain may be gar The Report on Economic
Con-In practice the Fascist State has in- Member of Anti-Gambling Lea- Oxford had been transplanted to
nered cheaply, excluding the need ditions in Italy written by
the tervened actively in the sphere of gue: "I will not say I have never the margins of Ontario,
Even the for foreign labour. Commercial Counsellor to H.M.'s distribution, sparingly in that of gambled. I once bought a ticket gardeners, pushing their mowing tremendous fields of practical deve- Small wonder that, with such Embassy in Rome is an enteresting production, and not at all-in con-in a raffle for my wife."
machines under the maples of a and illuminating commentary on tradistinction to Communism-io Member of Audience: "So that's park, upheld the
lopment hammering at his imagina- illusion. My the economic transformation which consumption. The ration queues hets you got her?"
friend accepted my congratulations tion, the Canadian boy should pre- the Faselst system has wrought in of Moscow are, of course, as allen
fer chemistry to Champlain. a Canadian should, proudly, Italy. No one will contest Mr. to the Fascist regime as is the
without surprise.
When we returned to the car the Turner's conclusion that "the wholly State-planned production A lion-tamer married a film star
foe was permanently smashed. The Italian experiment merits the which has totally destroyed in-the other day. He can always and elosest attention of the rest of the dividual initiative in the U.S.S.R. sanctuary in his cages. world." The rest of the world The control of production seems, has been apt to think of Fascism itowever, to be growing in Fascist merely as a form of politicni dieta-{Italy, and Mr. Turner eltes the en-| "You think thai torship. But that is only one as-factment last year of a law where-led "l pect of it.
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Wherent the boy began to thaw. Ten minutes had passed. I had act of imparting knowledge is of it. praised his capital, and had not yet week-cad the child forgot I was self a bond; and throughout the neighed.
"Wait till you see our hut on the
actor concelt-Gatineau," he said.
The other part of it by the erection of new, or the ex- "Conceited! If he heard a clap and in all probability the most im-tension of existing, plants in cer-of thunder he'd walk to the win- portant and the most enduring tafn Industries may only be under-Įdow and bowl" part of it-is a new
economic taken with the sanction of the Gov-
Facts You Did Not
strike him later.
The marvel of that silhouette will
English. It is significant that, among those who have never seen us fight, this is a compliment.
The Philosopher From Somerset
From the power station "we con- Romance of Electric Power
tinued up-river for a few miten, The Gatineau River flows into Then, without warning, we turned the Ottawa at just this joint: hard right, bumped over a single-line by the paper mill Know.
We skirted the track, and dropped into
a farm. Lumber-pile-a vast pyramid of yard.
The farmer, who greeted us carelets logs, which would soon ap from the door, apoke Dure Somer Inflated swimming floats that pear on news-stands--and headed set through his nose, He was an
The countryside'
is old, wise, earthy man, an emigrant
tioned Yeovil market in terms of Franite outcrops and small allu- brotherhood we with difficulty.re- vial farms struggle for victory trained from an embrace.
L
Bystem. Fascism, 48 Signor jernment. The Corporative State is Mussolini han written In the still in the stage of growth; and. article on the subject which he has as Mr. Turner remarks, a wisdom contributed to the newly-publish- not often found among those in- ed Dictionnaire Diplomatique, did spired by enthusiasm for a new not spring from any pre-establish idea! has been shown in the can be strapped to a person's back upstream. ed plan. It began in action against gradual application of theories out of the way of his arms and legs wooded here and drops away in of fifty years ago; and when I men Communists and Sociallets. It themselves based upon the require-have been invented that also can folds, · grew by an empirical process of mente of an epoch of change. There be used as life preservers. experiment. It took positive form has been a sensible if sometimes
first in the field of politics, where, opportunist compromise between Driven by an airplane propellor among the trees. The noise of after a period of uneasy associa-theory and practice, Mistakes have powered by an automobile engine, a hasty water, which is almost undis- we looked across the river to the He showed, me over, his houss, As on with the representatives of been made; but advocates of the motorboat has been constructed in tinguishable from wind in silver wooded slope beyond; I asked. of the the older Parliamentary system. Corporative organization clatm England that can be navigated on birches, came upwards as we drove. depression. made itself supreme by arbitrary that Italy to-day "is, in a somewhat only three inches of water.
Presently we arrived at the methods. It developed the idea of better position than her neigh-
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the totalitarian State. Then, hav-bours." This modest claim seems Made of carborundum, a sharp-| ing disposed of its rivals, it began to be borne out by a good, many pener has been invented that develop an economic system of features of the economic life of the sharpens only the edges of the its own, and, with an irremovable country; and there can be little blades of stainless steel kniven Government, was able to elaborate doubt that the mass of the work without scratching. the rest of the It gradually as a longterm policy. Ing-class population, at, drst op blades.
It was not until 1927 that the posed to Fascism because, the Charter of Labour. WRA decreed Socialists and Communists whom of Northern Italy has made the which definitely placed the it attacked belonged, preponderante country far less dépendent than I economic system of the country only to the working-class, have, ac- was on foreign coal, just as the ex- a Corporative bails. This great cepted Signor Mussolini as their tension of the area under wheat experiment is evolving a form of friend Confidence in the Bead cultivation has virtually made social economic ilfe more suitable,] of the State is indeed, the Italy independent of foreign sup- according to Its protagonists, to basis of the whole economic fabric alles. In the... financial aphere the social, economic, and ethical of the country and the financial, there has been a wise' avoidance conditions obtaining in the world machine also, according to the of foreign loans, and the debts to-day than that which the rest of statement of the Minister or abroad of the Italian State : (apart) the civilized world is endeavouring Finance, Signor, Jung, is based on from War Dahta) amount to a com- to adapt to altered circumstances. "confidence in the State and in the paratively small, sum, "What is The fundamental, thought underly. "wisdom of the Head of the Gov-called a crisis." Signor Mussolin! Ing the Corporative theory, states ernment." In no sphere have the has, written, “can only be solved in the Report, is that the nation widom and the energy of that re- In the State, by the State" The exists as the result of productive markable chief been so undeniably Rudgetary position is not satis effort, and that all productive et successful and so well rewarded as factory, for the deficit in the State fort must therefore
ONCE, DIPLOMACY SAID IT
be "disin agriculturo, In this department accounts was still, growing at kimon
ciplined for the benefit of the Haly was undoubtedly more back moment when this Report was whole, that is, of the State. The ward then her neighbours and written. On the whole, however movement has established a system therefore improvement was most "the general tendency in the of trade guilds or Corporations, an easily to be realized; but In any country is towards Proptimism." organs of the State. There are case the vast schemes of land re- There is a conviction that, bad mix of them; and each is divided clamation. of fertilization, and of though the circumstances still are, Into "confederations of employers settlement, and the introduction of the worst phase of the crjáls " is. and employees" There is also a more Intensive methods of cultiva passing. Fasciam, in fact, has separate confefferation of profes-tion have lone put the country far sulted Italy." But the relative aforal mon and artfits. The ex- under an enormous debt to [Ef success of the experimant is of sence of the guild. idea is that the Fascist, Government. Now towns course no sort of reason why i Interests of employers and employ have been built and Targe districta falould "ault other countries, which ed are not opposed but common. rescued from the 7 scourke " of differ from Italy, in geographical Striker and lockouts are equally malaria, Hardly less spectacular conditions, in the stage o illegal. The State exercises.com has been the increase in the use economic development,, in pulsory arbitration whenever the of hydro-electric power. The datibok, and in the chara ¦disputants are unable to ttleys, utilization the hydraulie forodh of their" iddiyidual oltzeps,
Ja
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VELVET
(Continued on Page 11).
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