1934-11-12

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WHAT STALIN THINKS

OF ROOSEVELT

Doomed To Failure In Patching Old Order COMPARISON REPUDIATED

Stalin, the Soviet dictator, re- pudiates any comparison between Himself and President Roosevelt. "who merely tries to patch ap the aid order."

The President's programme cannot be realized under several generations. Stalin believes, and probably never.

These views are revealed m the record of the interview nj July, between Stalin and H. G. Wells, now available.

A planned economy. Stalin held. was impossible without get- ting rid of capitalists.

"I do not belittle the persona!! qualities of President Roosevelt' his Initiative, courage and de-

he cisiveness,"

said. "In- doubtedly of all the leaders in the present capitalist world he is the most powerful figure; but as soon as he undertakes anything which seriously threatens the foundations of capitalism he will suffer utter defeat."

On the manner in which Britain manages. her major "class struggles" he said: "OF all ruling classes those in Eng- land have proved themselves the cleverest and the most flexible.

"Take, for example, the strike]

of 1926. The first thing any

other Bourgeoisie would have

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1934-

The fast photograph taken of M. Louis Barthou, French Foreign Minister, who was asinated with King Alexander of Jugoslavia nt Marselles last month.

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St. John Brigade Competition

To the Editor "China Mail"}

done would have been to arrest the trade union tenders. The British did not do it. I cannot Sir, With your permission 1 conceive of such flexible strategy should like, through the medium of

To-day's Short Story.

Fame Take The 'J' Car

By George

Albee

7ELL, Mr. Rodney, I guess then all the gilt come off right away, you will be sort of surprised but at first I guess "Bertha was

Ito hear from me. I am down here pretty jealous. But I always say a in Bridgeport, fifty miles away woman's place is in the home. from home.

Working my way through Poly, I Well, Mr. Rodney, the reason had one job at Lacey's drug atore,, am writing is, I think the Company and Mr. Lacey said I was the best: is not treating me fair. I think soda-jerk ho over had. Then I had every man has a right to tell their fa job delivering the Clarion-Gazette own side of the story, don't you? on my bicycle. They gave me o So I will begin at the beginning, and bronze button to wear in my but thon maybe you will agree I have ton-hole, because I never had any Now 1 a right to say what I'm going to complaints on my route.

was through school. What was the sny.

sense of it all, I figured, if you did not get a job with a future to it?

I knew I was sort of different

At Polytechnic High, Bertha was the most popular girl, and she was in the Mimerian Society, which has

la motto Leadership. Scholarship, from most fellows, with what every-

and Character. Well, I hate to toot one always said about me and all.

my own horn, but I was In the We had a' contest at Poly, and I was Mimerian Society, too. When we

TO-MORROW'S STORY

told Miss Farnum we was engaged, she said it was fine, because would be elvic leaders together all our lives just like we were at Poly High. Then it was just get, out and hustle, for Bertha and me, from the word Go. But we knew all the big- gest men in the country have start- led at the bottom of the ladder, and

you can not keep a good man down, elected Man Most Likely to Succeed,'

To-morrow's story will be "Forward, Miss Hilton by Henry Stace.

"THE GARDEN OF Just like you say yourself, Mr. and things like that all the time, 1

MYSTERIES"

It is

the

Local Performance Probable

understood that being employed in the United your paper, to clarify certain rules"Hurmat" show featuring Profes- States or Germany or France.

"The British have never fors- Ages" Competition which is being or G. M. Andrews, well-known as small concessions arrun by the St. John Ambulance As- The Indian Living Dracula of the reforms, but it would be a mis-sociation, as I have received many stage, has arrived in the Colony take to think that these reforms queries about the sume.

after an successful tour of Canton are revolutionary."

and Macao.

worn

BOGUS PRINCE IS SENTENCED

Man Who Ordered A

Herd of Cows

about "The Amateur Art for All;

In the Brst place each entry should be accompanied by the en- trance fee 50 or 30 cents., accord-1

Rodney in your wonderful articles mean. So right at first I didn't in Trainmen's Topics every month. know what job to get. But I was Bertha wanted to go to clerking in the Hi-Y Club (that was a club at the Five and Dime store. This of manly Christian fellows that was no-account brother of hors, Herb, the leaders at school, I guess you had just gotten married, too, and remember) and one night at the his wife was working to support Y.M.C.A. you made us & speech, him, and they had a lot of fancy Mr. Rodney! All about what you furniture they bought over to the have done for Riverside, and about Mercantile. It was no good, be your ideals. And about how the cause they got a kind with pink Riverside Street Railway Company kewples painted all over it. and was only hiring men with high |school educations. Gee, I guess you will think I am trying to softscap you, but I remember every word you sald. I mean, about Its being a job for men of ideals, because the Company has such wonderful ideals.; because the Company has such won- derful ideals of service and all. Mr. Rodney, that was the most inspiring moment of my life!

GENEVA RED CROSS CONVENTION It is anticipated that arrange- Ing to the Section which they are ments are being made with one of entefed, as this. is in the form of the_local_lending Theatres to pre- a small-donation towards the new

Cheung Chau Hospital. Secondly, ent "The Garden of Mysteries" for paintings may be original or copied, a few nights before his departure although naturally the former stand to Shanghai where he is reported to a better chance.

be booked for performances.

Sinni Winji, a native of Ceylon, In London recently there bas who was described by a detec, been an. "Amateur Art for All tive as "a nuturally plausible Ages" Exhibition, the proceeds be- scoundrel who appeared to obtaining devoted towards Charity. considerable enjoyment from the It is intended after the local ex- way he takes money from peoplejhibition to send selected paintings who can ill afford to part with to London for exhibition there, so it." was sentence to eighteen I hope that the lochi attempt will months' hard labour at Surrey be a success both from a charitable Quarter Sessions, Kingston, last and artistic point of view. The month.

Cheung Chau Hospital will be Detective Harris said Winji's formally opened or Wednesday, correct name was Hector Fer November 21, at 3 p.m. by Mrs. nando. He had four previous Borrett. Special launches will convictions. At Windsor he leave Blake Pier at 1.45 p.m., and represented that he was a native all those interested are cordially prince desirous of purchasing an invited to attend. estate for £48,000. He told a local butcher that he would have

a staff of 40 servants, and gavei

him instructions to purchase a herd of Jersey cows and some pedigree poultry,

He asked the butcher to cash

a cheque for £5, but the butcher;

thinking this was a small amount

for "his Highness." asked if it was enough, and Winji then sug- gested £7 10s. The cheque was worthless.

CHIEF SCOUT AND FITNESS

National Standard Too Low

Delegates Impressed By Local Work

Delegates from the Geneva Red So the next morning bright and. Cross Convention who have been at-learly I went down to see you." I tending the Tokyo Conference are went down to see you. I went down now returning home, many of them town town on the street-car, and on passing through the colony, the way I hung around the back In addition to several members of platform and sort of watching the the Staff, delegates from Norway, con, you know, and thinking what Belgium, Sweden, New Zealand etc. fine work it was, and how interest- have called upon the local St. John ing it must be to meet all those folk Ambulance Association, many of every day. I guess I am a philoso- them visiting the St. John Clinica pher, sort of. in the New Territories.

Most young married couples just Mr. Tang Shul Kin and Mr. Fung go to the movies after supper, but[ Kong Un have been hosts on two Bert and I will walk up and down WHAT MUSSOLINI TOLD HIM · occasions.

Main St. just studying people. ·I Great admiration has been ex-study books on success, too; but| London.

That is pressed for the work done by the Bert does not do that, Lord Baden-Powell-the Grand local assoolation, especially the work one fault I will have to admit she

has. She thinks you get rich by | Young Man of Scouting-Intends in the Now Territories.

She gets getting lucky breaks. R. LANGLEY, to make up for the months of

Ideas like that from her brother! inactivity forced on him by his

Herb. that is always getting ex- recent illness.

With Lady Baden-Powell, the PALESTINE AS HOPE Chief Guide, he set out on Octo-

Hon. Sec.

OF THE JEWS

Closing Of Avenues Of Emigration

ber 27 on a world tour which will not bring him back to this coun- try until next July, when he will be 78.

WORKMAN SHOT AT eited over soms hairbrained scheme.

·SHING MUN

Detective Fires Revolver In Self-Defence

SERIOUS RIOT LAST NIGHT

If it was not for Herb. I would not} be in this terrible trouble I am in

But what I started to say is, I now, with my heart broken. went down town to our Company bullding. Gee, I was scared! You know how it is, asking for your first real job.

I know you have gone through it

There was little doubt of the He arrived at an Eastbourne Mr. Leonard Stein, addressing Chief Scout's fitness when he In an attempt to quell a serious yourself; although some of the fel hotel with a liveried chauffeur. the Near and Middle East Asso-presided,, before departure, at a riot between Cantonese and northern lows say you got your job through and kept an appointment with a ciation in London, said that in funcheon at the Savoy Hotel, at Chinese workmen at Shing Man pull, because when you got out of well-known firm of motor dealers other parts of Europe besides which he explained the plan of Valley Dam last night, a Chinese college your father owned a lot of at another hotel. He told them Germany, especially in Eastern his tour.

detective, Yung Chuen, shot a coolle stock in our Company. You would

he was acting on behalf of a and South-Eastern Europe, the "It is in accordance with the who later died at the Kowloon Hos-be surprised if you knew how much native Raja, and intended buying position of the Jews was deplor idea of promoting imperial and pita!, several cars. He went for a trial able.

international goodwill through It is reported that the detective's slandering talk like that goes around run, and on his return found They were being relentlessly the personal touch that we are interference was resented by the the car barns every day in the year. I could give you the name of man police officers waiting for him. squeezed out of opportunities of starting on another world tour." infuriated workmen who turned on after man that is always running

Winji, who addressed the court earning a livelihood, and the con- he said.

him. The situation became three-you and the other executives down, fluently for nearly an hour, sad siderations which had led to the "Our main objective will be tening and the officer drew his re-if I was the kind that carries tales. that between 1921 and 1923 when decision in favour of a Jewish the Scouts Jamboree in Austra volver in self-defence. In the And these men are still working for in England he had £10,000, and national home in Palestine had lia, at Christmas. But the out-struggle that ensued the revolver you right to-day, and here I am produced a bank statement to become all the more cogent bevard journey will enable us to was discharged wounding one of the fired! -It just don't seem fair, Mr. that effect.

cause of the gradual closing of see Scouts and Guides at Gibral workmen. The man was rushed to Rodney. all other avenues of emigration. tar. Toulon, Port Sald, Aden, hospital, but died shortly after ad-But I will tell you ft all, and then NEXT WEDNESDAY'S Millions of Jews saw nothing. Ceylon, Malays, and Queensland mission.

you will see for yourself I was but the hopes centring in Pales-The return journey will take us Reinforcements from the Tsun telling you how I came down to the CONCERT tine between themselves and through New Zealand to San Wan Police Station were summoned office, that first time, seven years

blank despair,

Francisco, across Canada, and and they managed to disperse the

ago. I tell you, it is a mighty big At Sailors' And Soldiers'. The swelling tide of Jewish down to New York."

mob. The detective, however, was immigration had admittedly Health Culture For Youth beaten up by the workmen and fe's work Hut I was not scared moment when a fellow chooses his Home

created certain problems. The The Chief Scout said that they taken to hospital where he lies, in Palestine, Government had done were envious of legacies to a serious condition.

so much feeling I sort of knew you personally, and what wonderful Ideals you had just like mine.1 still wish you had been in your

A concert, arranged by Mrs. G. admirable work, but it was universities. He spoke critically W. R. Griggs, la being given in the gravely handicapped by its pre-of the standard of our national Sailors and Soldiers Home, No. 23, occupation with holding the physical soundness. Hennessy Road on Wednesday even-balance between Jews and Arabe "It is," he declared, "lament-pletely to alter for the better the office that morning. Mr. Rodney, ing, commencing at 8.30 pm The No serious person would sug-ably low. The standing need in health and stamina of a nation If you had talked to me and seen price of admission la 20 cents.. gest that the solution was to the upbringing of British youthThere are not enough jobs," what kind of man I was, and how The following Artistes have regard the Arab objections as to day is an adequate system of he said, "for all the fellows at felt about service, and everything kindly consented to appear. Mrs. conclusive, and to leave the Jews health culture, the universities. Half of them you talked about in your speech at L. Shaftain, Pianoforte; Mrs. E. to their fate. But neither was He mentioned that Mussolini are from countries where their the Y that pight, why last Friday Snowdon Jones, Soprano; Mrs. H. it a solution to take it for grant had once had a long talk with him colour is a bit different from you would have remembered me and

have not fred me Lockhart Contralto; Dr. L. T. Ride, ed that there must be a perpe on the subject, and added that ours. Some of them become you Baritone; Mr. 3. R. Suiter, Flute; tual and sterile brawl in which the Dictator had shown how, by lawyers, with only a little law in giving me a chance to Mr. Frederick Mason A.R.CO., Great Britain's part would be to proper, organisation, It was pos practice. The only thing open is what I was saying LTCL will be at the piano, hold the ring.

(Continued on Pane. sible within a generation com to become agitators, and so on.

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