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SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1934.
BUDAPEST'S BRAVE FACADE
POVERTY MUST BE KEPT CONCEALED
LIFE IN A PROUD CAPITAL
(By Noel Panter.)
Budapest. Hungarian universities who can find
'Outwardly Budapest has changed no other means of earning a living. but little in recent years. There Their tragedy is sometimes brought The Irish Free State has Minis-are still cafes open all night to which home to one in unexpected ways. ters in Washington, Paris, and revellers repair in the small hours Only a few nights ago one of my Berlin.
after a night of cabaret-tasting. Hungarian friends said, bantering- Australia's only Minister abroad In them you may partake of the ly, to the taxi driver who stood at is Mr. Bruce, in London.
celebrated kaposztaleves (a kind of the open door awaiting our instruc- In Paris she is represented by a Sauerkraut soup) which is not only tions, "Lead me along new patha, High Commissioner, and in Wash-an effective thirst quencher but is Oh, Lucifer!" It was a quotation Ington by a Commissioner.
reputed to exercise a soothing in from the play, "The Tragedy of fluence on the digestion!
Man," by Imre Madach. With only Transatlantic Lotteries
Fashionably dressed Hungarian an instant's reflection the taxi-man- women still parade the Vaczi ucca-a quondam prizeman in literature The movement for legalising lot (Budapest's Bond-street) at about took up the cue and quoted Luci teries in the United States gathers midday and in the afternoons. As fer's answer. It seemed to me that force. It always does this after they stroll along, seemingly without he climbed somewhat sadly to his the draw for the Irish Sweep, to
at driving seat. which and to other foreign Jotteries: care in the world, smiling friends and acquaintenances,
""Closing Down". American citizens have contributed eagerly discussing the latest society Many are the stories told of the heavily in the last last three years.gossip, you would not dream that financial depression in Budapest. They spend still more on lotteries only this morning, perhaps, the an- Perhaps the most apt is that of the at home. In these small-money tique dealer paid an absurdly American tourist who commented, enterprises, Dow dominated by diminutive sum for the last piece of upon the business enterprise of ono gangsters and racketeers, conserva-valuable period furniture, that the particular Hungarian firm, which tive estimates put the annual
luxurious fat near the Parliament appeared to have three or four receipts at U.S.$4,000,000,000. House or the large villa in Huevoes- branches in every street. How was voelgy was exchanged only last week it, he asked, that this concern could for a two-roomed apartment looking flourish when so many other under- on to a dingy vard in a cheap quartakings were reputed to be register.
ing a loss? ter of the town.
The justly-famed beauty of Hun- His inquiry caused much mystifi- gary's women is not only a beauty cation in Hungarian quarters, until It is even in it was realised that the name of the
Door-To-Door Racket The favourite lottery is a gamble on numbers. It has several forma, known variously as "Policy," "Num- bers," "Treasury," "Guaranty.".
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the disparity must be still great- used for lottery tickets the whole middle age-a beauty of the figure, "firm" which he had seen placarded
Megazuernik. er. Latest returns gave the num-racket is conducted on a house-to-and carries with it a breath-taking on so many shop windows
Being translated, Rush To Flats
this means "Closing Down." Hong Kong, Saturday, April 28, 1934. ber of unemployed workers in house "canvas" No printed tickets charm of manner.
America at eleven millions, are required.
Your Hungarian wife never be. One of the most remarkable fen- though there have been reduc- The player writes on a slip of| tions since. There is nothing to paper his combination of numbers comes careless of her appearance. tures of present-day-Budapest is the It is the custom to affix notices through the cessation of divi- lectors" call for the slips and for the over her toilet! But when she In figures of astronomical mag-dends, are reduced practically to cash. A draw is then made and the emerges into the morning sunshine bearing the particulars of available nitude, the American Department the same position. But amongst winning combinations of numbers it is almost impossible to tell whe-fints to the main entrance doors on ther her own white hand or that of the street level. There are few re of Commerce as just published those who had no other means are announced. a survey of the income of the of livelihood than returns from A slip-holder may be lucky nature has wrought the fairer Dic.sidential buildings in the town that do not flaunt two or three auch United States people for the their investments enough ap-enough to hold a winning number. ture
Despite the craze in these hard placards. period 1929 to 1932, which is pears in the report to make it His good fortune does not always
Yet often the concierge exhibits times for so-called bachelor flats, said to be the most complete of plain that there is now more extend to collecting the prize.
kind ever compiled. distress in America among them | The system is rife with abuses, consisting of one or two rooms with no disposition to show these flats. are If one insists of viewing them, one The object of the
The work than in any other class. There is the only efficient part of it being kitchen and bath-room, there
met by hostile stares. is to show approximately a popular delusion that the divi-
which begins with still large establishments where old is the "canvass," the extent to which the dends of public companies are all the school-children and overlooks no customs and traditions are main-tenants have, you see, no intention They have given legitimate incomes distributed to distributed
tained. The hospitality of the home of moving out. amongst wealthy individuals were affected by the people. But anyone taking the section of the population.
To end the racket several States, not that of the cafe or the res-notice merely in order to press down to examine the share! depression. Incomes are classi-trouble
Often they succeed, but sometimes fied under four heads: Wages, lists of banks and big financial including Maine, have now drafted taurant is then extended to friends, the rent.
return it, When It is decided to an obstinate landlord will prove salaries, dividends, and interest. institutions, as well as industrial Bills to permit lotteries under State many of whom are to-day unable to
supervision.
Thus, every Inspecting hold a reception, much thought is adamant. The totals expressed in dollars concerns, will find that the aver-
given to the issuing of invitations, visitor is a potential danger. would be too unwieldly for use age number of shares individual-
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The Hungarians are blessed, or ful comparative purposes. but ly held is small. Even allowing
|afflicted, with an almost incatlable carefully checked. their last analysis shows that that the same person may hold
SUBURBAN SILHOUETTES
Gone are those spacious days curiosity. Sitting in the cafes they during the period under review stock in different companies, It is incomes fell forty per cent, be- equally true that many are un-
"You knew before we got mar-when it was estimated that every will read not only the newspapers low the 1929 level, of which loss able to afford an investment in ried that you were marrying a bank invited guest would bring his own of their own country, but those of wage-earners suffered sixty per more than one, and it has to be a clerk, didn't you?"
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Tragedy Brought Home
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Once a wealthy landed proprietor in Transylvania, he now lives in a furnished suburban dwelling. It is nearly three miles distant, yet he paya the taxi-man only sixpence. His poverty must not be faunted invaded before the world, so he has engaged
“KANGAROO" TERROR. IN TENNESSEE
15-Hour HuntTM Over · Mountains
PROVES TO BE A LYNX
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
A 15-hour hunt over. Signal-
cent.
"Of course I did. Why?" Since the figures apply comparatively small investment The cessation of divi- only to the first years of the de- even so.
"Oh nothing; only I thought pression, in which the fall was dend paying therefore has not perhaps you imagined you'd mar progressive, nothing else was to hit America's rich men only, it ried a bank." have been expected. When con-has aggravated the effects of the sumption first failed to keep pace depression for all classes. with production and the factories moral of it all is of universal ap Love and All That
He: If we were married, could at home. began reducing hands, their over-plication. As' society is consti-
The great night arrives. head machinery was, for a time tuted, it shows that capital and you live on my income?
She: I could; but what would about eight o'clock the motor-cars Barcelona. at all events, kept intact. And labour must stand or fall to-
begin to draw up. See! There is when, in due course, reduction in gether. In America, as they re-you live on?
|X. alighting from a taxi. Over he the executive and clerical staffn velled together in the few de
FROM A SERIAL
dinner jacket he wears one of those! of the post-war] followed they would at the belirious years
"The vicer's daughter certainly Hungarian greatcoats, narrow ginning be on a relatively small-boom, they now suffer together
the
slump. had her own ideas of dress." No the waist but full and flowing from reactionary er Beale than amongst the 'man-in
the hips, with elaborate black cord. ual workers. But were the Neither the wage rate nor the doubt she wore parish models.
buttons and other embellishments. figures for 1988 available they dividend rate is to be determin- would tell a still more dismaled by any fixed standard. story for both sections. So, too, real wage rate is what the total with incomes from dividends and amount of wages earned would
A doctor says you should always interest, During the
were all first yield to each worker,
try to smile as you are going to jonset 'of the depression employed. A high rate for some!
these held 'their
ground, and no wages at all for, others sleep, and you'll sleep better. obviously. from the same cause would mean a low rate for the!
A RUSHI as that which eased the fall for mass. The same applies to divi-
Commercialism has. men in the salaried ranks. There dends. It is not that higher pro- were reserves of undivided profits are being earned by indivi-even the jungle. A wild animal taxi for the final hundred yards Mountain ended in the killing of a. lieved to be the "kangaroo" that fits to keep up payments, of divi-dual companies but that more photographer reports that his of his journey, the remainder being large long-legged mountain lynx be- Inquisitive servants peeping from terrorized the Hamburg community: dends and interest for a while; companies are earning profits. latest pictures were spolled be accomplished by tram-cor,
the windows near the tradesmen'a near South Pittsburg, Tennessee. but when that source had been This represents a real rise in cause the elephants charged too
entrance observe late comers fur-Mountain hunters, fired buckshot drained dry, the plight of the dividend incomes, just as every much.
tively wiping their muddy shoes be-Into the animal as it crouched in a people living on their invest-worker drafted out of the ranks
fore ascending the steps to the main tree. ments became worst of all. The of the unemployed into the ranks
A woman has been granted a
The "kangaroo" was charged with report says that though "in of the wage-earners puts up the
yet they complain apologetically to slaying and partially devouring comes from dividends and inter-average wage for the workers as divorce because her husband would doorway. They have come on foot, est remained fairly steady dur-la whole. And so are seen Lon-play. "Daisy Bell" on the gramo their hostess that "the police should dogs, sheep, and other, animals and ing the first years of the depres-don Stock Exchange prices rising phone. You can buy the record at really prohibit these decrepit and causing Negroes to stay home every slon, after 1930 they declined from the depression level. "pari any gramophone shop, more than wages." This stands passu" with the diminishing re- to reason. For if a business cou-gistration of unemployed work tinued working on a scale no ers. This indicates that the re- matter how reduced, it would turn to prosperity in Britain is have to employ a certain num-on consistent lines. And it is all ber of hands and pay them the more satisfactory becauso wages, profit or no profit. But whatever progress is made is not when no profit was being earned the result of any meretricious and all reserves had been used aids such as the dollar juggling up, dividends had to stop. If by by which, in America, the value Chorus girl: "I stand in front llar. the end of 1930 the effect of this of labour and commodities is of my "mirror" for hours admiring had been to make the fall in in- sought to be put up by putting my beauty, I suppose you'd call no Russian counts who have donned kangaroo-like. hops ascribed to the the chauffeur's livery, there are strange marauder of the Hamburg- vestment. incomes relatively down the value of the tokens it vanity E heavier than "In those derived given to exchange for themarks, Her friend: "No, Imagination." many engineering graduates of community. Reuter.
her.
HUSBAND'S CORNER
SHORT, SHORT STORY-
night. Even as it fell from the slowly-moving taxis,"
Meanwhile, from the taxi rank tree with the death-wound it killed nearby, some of the drivers, stamp-one of the hounds in the pack that. Before marriage he yearned for ing with their feet in the cold, gare chased it...
wistfully at the lighted windows and Weighing more than 40 pounds, After marriage he dropped the imagine the gay scene behind the the animal measured 60 inches in warm plush curtains of the drawing-length, had a short tail, slightly room and salons. With scanes such turfted ears, and a spotted coat.
Its long legs indicated that it-- us this a few among them are fami-
We might have travelled, with leaping Although in Budapest there are strides, giving credence to the-
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