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A HUXLEY FOR THE ZOO
The secretaryship of the London Zoo, to which Mr. Julian Huxley has been appointed in succession to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, fa a highly responsible peat.
It carries a salary of about £1,500 a year and involves the supervision of an army of clerks, gardeners and keepers.
IN THE LAND OF THE NEW DEAL
CONTRASTS WITH THE
POST-SLUMP IN U.S. AMERICA AFTER THE WAR
(By Shane' Leslie.)
Areas sibit to the United that he had not taken over and
The Zoo is a private concern and States is like returning to a new receives no grant from the State, country. The contrast between but it has a large income,
**America stricken in currency is
Last year it received £48,000, enormous. from gate money, £21,000 in sub- The first sign of change is the scriptions; and £2,500 from rides on comparative stillness of New York. animals.
No building crane is cranking; no
It was founded by Sir Stamford rivet is screaming. For the time Raffles just over a century ago. It being all bullding has ceased.
It
is administered by a council under resembles Babel the morning after the presidency of the Duke of Bed-the works were stopped, and to ford.
enforce, the lusion there is the same outbreak of varied tongues on the pavement. New York has not learnt to speak English yet.
JULIAN LIKES AXOLOTLS
nationalised the banks during that almighty week when they knelt at his feet. The selfish vagaries of certain bankers have made them the moat unpopular members of the community. There was a savage satisfaction in the grilling which many received from the President's Inquiry.
New Bureaucracy
The New Deal has brought a New Bureaucracy. It is difficult to approach Washington without being.
Mr. Huxley has hunted gorilla in The new aky-scrapers are only lit mistaken for a college professor the Congo; he has bred many in corners, and whole lines of win. called in to advise the President. generations of rats in the effort to dows preserve a blind aspect. The dinner to Miss Perkins, the real was content to talk through a discover whether they can inherit Empire State building is new, with acquired characteristics.
scraper of
its head lost in the hovering mists. man of the Cabinet, who, like them But his favourite le the axolotl, a it earns its keep by pretending to all, is deeply Interested in Irish peculiar Mexican tadpole, which be the Eiffel Tower and taking
agricultural policy. A number of metamorphosises itself into a sala-tourists to the top at a dollar a
critics consider Mr. De Valera 'more mander under certain conditions. head. Another new
conservative than Franklin Roose Julian and his brother Aldous are clouds is the Radio City, which velt, and wish they could exchange often quoted as a shining example blats out the familiar Cathedral of
"chairs" during the vacation at of inherited ability in
least. human St. Patrick's, though this is one of beings. For three generations the the largest in the world. Radio
I stayed a week with Alice Roose- family have now produced excep City is the particular "Folly of velt, who with Cardinal Gibbons had entertained me in the old days. the Rockefellers. To one looking The two brothers are alike both upward the rows and rows of iden- The Cardinal, alas, is now a public extensions of towns may be in appearance. and tastes.
tical windows resemble a sheet of character with the most surprising. statue; but Alice is still a public found with better, planning and
Aldous is almost as fond of uncancelled stamps. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1984. tral streets. It is true that a as prolific a writer as Aldous,
architecture than their old cen- science as Julian. Julian is nearly Opening the newspaper on arrival
Wonderland as her background. It mediaeval tithe-barn is a far
find my only link with the past is was pleasant to hear her voice on the telephone after fifteen years the name of Rockefeller. The old more beautiful building than a
man has passed from the eighties she had provided a chaplain for me. asking me to come Immediately as eorrugated iron
garage, that
into the nineties. He is still news many an old farm is comely and
and much more popular, though Father Coughlin, the redoubtable The chaplain turned out to be
'.
The China Mail
Britain Rebuilding
tional men.
I
Your Daily Smile!
Among the wanted inventions:
Apparently.
A reckoned the last of the "Robber
are now reading with more indigna- Sunday from a point of view a to fifteen million listeners every tion than envy." Rockefeller, has little to the left of the Sermon on sunk so many millions in this build-
3
As evidence of the steady im-many a modern factory hideous-watch that will keep on running when Barons". about whom Americana/adio-priest who addresses twelve provement of economic conditions Yet there are fatories put up the after dinner speaker lays it on a at home nothing is more impres- within the last few years which table." sive than the continuous increase have an impressive dignity of in building. The year 1934 is ex-structure. In commercial and in pected to set up a record, and it domestic architecture there is, if
"One-half of the world does not knowing that he has only to live, his the Mount. Though distressing to is probable that there will be fur-not an admirable standard, at how the other half lives!" shouted the century at this rate to die a pauper. conservative Catholics, he has ther expansion. It is not only least a progressive feeling after lecturer.
tremendous popular following. Parallel with Fifth Avenue is the the construction of dwelling style. Yet it is essential to be people attend to their own business modern wonder of New York, Park
"Splendid! That means that half the
We afterwards- went to the houses which is developing. On vigilant in-preserving new factories a great deal more country and towns from uglifica-
Senate, where I could not find an Avenue: a Brobdingnagian tunne! will be spent in 1984 than in tion. But it would be well to re-
of immense apartment houses un-and Phelan, but dear old Ham Lewis old friend alive, like Senators Lodge 1933. Shops, offices, and public frain from believing that the
ending on both sides. The traffic building also show an increase, modern spirit, and particularly in her tastes. I told her that I hadn't dashes of six or ten blocks before the Gallery, turned ble speech to "She's a lovely girl, and so simple moves smoothly between in sudden was speaking, and, seeing Alice in though not of the same propor- the modern building. Is antago-much of an income yet, but that I the long line of green lights has Lewis was the hero of a famous re-
memories of her father. tions. Here we have striking nistic to beauty..
hoped I could provide for her every flashed red like the old-fashioned partee in my day. proof of an actual improvement
in industry and commerce, and
both said a voice in the back seat!
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Liberal Statement
want."
"And what did she say?""
"She said that would be all she
of confidence that it will be pro- ITALIAN JOURNALIST would ask!"Fearson's. gressive.
The last calculations
jon housing show something
greater than the impressive re-
sults already achieved. When
IN TROUBLE
Mr. Shakespeare told the House Found With Unlicensed
of Commons that in the year Pistol At Repulse Bay Jending March 31, 1934, 266,000 houses were completed, he called the total "terrific. But for the aliat. was this morning fined $25 year which ends with March. by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen 1985, á record of 850,000
His expected. This will
Renato Spera, an Italian journ-
not
tral Magistracy, for
being in
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Straining
game of reveral.
Senator
Senator Pen- Traffic and telephones are still rose had accused him of dyeing his whiskers with German dye-stuffs, far ahead of English conditions, and thereby encouraging the enemy. The quickness of the long distance Lewis replied that the only disguise call is almost unbelievable, for you
Solicitor (in country court): "Don't are speaking to your number before Penrose needed was a little white- your explanation ? you think you are straining a point in you think you are out of the ex
wash.
often have to strain things to make
Witness: "Perhaps I am, but you change.
them clear."
Personal Par
Mr. T. A. Mitchell manager of
be too many. Plans already possession of an automatic platol at W. R. Loxley and Company, accom made for slum clearance demand.
Repulse Bay Hotel.
panied by Mrs. Mitchell and Master the provision of homes for Acting-fnspector. A. V. Baker Mitchell, returned to the Colony by nearly 1.250,000 people, and the aid that defendant came to the the RMS. Empress of Asia to-day. erection of over. 286,000 dwell Colony on September 10 by the 8.8. ings for these. alone..
Conte Rosso, and registered at the
Praise Of England
Conservative Judgements=
I passed to the Supreme Bench, ard, thanks to Judge Butler, heard The great contrast is in men's a session. Chief Justices Taft and minds. The old naive arrogance White had passed away, and in their ·· has given way to a disarming place sat Chief Justice Hughes, humility. The admiration and whom I remembered as a Presiden laudation of England's efforts tial candidate against Wilson. The during the depression are almost chief change in the Supreme Bench disconcerting to, the ears of an was the presence of the brilliant Irishman. It is realised that new Justices Brandols and Cardozo, England was able to pull herself bath, I believe, Hebrews, who have out of the slough as one, whereas needed a little extra brains to arrive the greatest difficulty in America in the Holy of Holies,
is that too many nationals and Their judgments seemed to me non-English-speakers incline to certainly in the path of advance, shift for their own groups while Judge Butler, as is often the Strikes are far too common. In way, with Irishmen in America,
Side by side with the clear-Repulse Bay Hotel. The next day eral manager of the Standard Oll Mr. C. E. Meyer, assistant gén- ance of the slums and the re-he complained that his room had Company of New York, arrived to- duction of the evils of over-been disturbed, and his trunk day on the R.M.S. Empress of Asia crowding, the normal work of searched. Upon investigation by from Shanghai. building for replacement, and the police, a Lugar automatic for increased
¡comfort,
is piatol was found in defendant's Mr. L. G. Cousins, Director of the the old days, when every man work tends to be strongly conservative. proceeding. Never was the de-room..
British American Tobacco Company ed to make himself or his son a But I do not wish to be unjust to mand for a higher standard 80
Inspector Baker asked for a fine at Shanghai, was among the pas prospective millionaire, strikes were any on that most famous, powerful,. keen. The economic conse- and the confiscation of the weapon. sengers on the RMS, Empress of unpopular. Now there is a sense and incorruptible Bench In the quences of the improvement in Mr. Hamilton then asked defen- Asia which arrived to-day. the home of the nation is to pro-dant whether he attached any anti-
of disappointment and embitterment world. mote expenditure in the field of mental value to the pistol. Defen-
amongst the workers which only the Mr. Geo. H. Potts, partner of the magle of the President's prestige capital goods, where the maxidant answered in the affirmative. firm of Benjamin and Potts, was keeps in hand. There is a wide mum amount of employment is Mr. Hamilton imposed a fine and among created. Not only do the indus-advised defendant to secure & R.MS. Empress of Asia which ar-of the State amongst the workers, the passengers on the spread desire to become pensionary tries specifically concerned, such license. lag the
rived to day. building trade itself,
and this has been growing during brick-making, and so forth, bene
the winter, fit, but a large number of ancil lary industries also gain. The social improvement involved in rehousing the population is
WOMEN ATTEMPT SUICIDE
Of Po Sum Oil
Mr. H. McGowan, of Vancouver, Support of the President has B.C., the Inspector-in-Charge, De-taken the place of patriotiem. partment of Investigation, of the There is a determination to see him Canadian Pacific Railway, arrived through, right or wrong Even Asia. to-day by the RMS. Empress of critics do not say more than that
leaders to theirs.
(Continued on Page 11.)
THREE INDIANS TO BE DEPORTED
Waiting At House Of Detention
equally Indisputable, but there One Drinks Six Bottles are certain phases of the change
America will recover in spite of the 4 charge of vagrancy was pre- which need to be regarded with
President. They have become more ferred against three Indiana, Shan- caution. The spread of new
Among the passengers who sailed fluent since March 4, but the Presi di Lall, 19 years, Harri Singh, 23 buildinge over the countryside is Two attempted suicides by morning was Dr. R. B. Jackson, of country as any of the Continental who were brought before Mr. E. W by the President Pierce early this dent remains as indispensable to his years, and George Kebart, 88 years, clearly not quite an unqualified Chinese women in Kowloon fall the Colonial Medical Department.
The desire to get into the transferred to hospital blessing.
ed yesterday, the women being
Hamilton at
at the Central Magis I heard him speak the day after tracy this morning. country and the power of doing Lai Ching, of No. 208. Canton
Mr. H. Glover, assistant general my arrival in Washington. It was
Detective Mottram said that tÒ so provided by motor vehicles Road, was admitted to the manager of the Hong Kong Tram his first reply to critics,
them had been dealt with by the have doubtless produced a good Kwong Wah hospital after at ways, Ltd left the Colony early immediate Impression was deal of "gaunt and ugly
build tempting to take her own life by this morning by the President combined qualities
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