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What will happen to us when teroplanes attain the speed of Bound? To do this an acceleration] of 280 miles an hour on the present record is required—no impossibility. The sécumulated noise might
THE CHANGING LIFE OF RUSSIA
"CLASSLESS SOCIETY"
NOW ON WANE
NEW CASTES AND GRADES
(By A. T. Cholerton)
deafen or kill anyone standing ANYONE resident in the big never yet seen them in wear save below. Actually the physical effect cities of Russia to-day who on the backs of officials deputed to en an observer of an object moving keeps observant eyes cannot be in receive visiting foreigners or those faster than sound is known from any doubt about it.
delegated to attendance on foreign A Red "bourgeoisie d'Etat," as parties. experiments with shells.
Orghonikidze, the powerful Com- It is a familiar fact that if you it might be called, is rapidly
rafasar for Heavy Industry, has are struck by lightning you do not emerging out of State Capitalism. hear the thunder. Also if you are
This new upper layer, comprising ordored his engineers to dress incre shot through the head so that you "responsible workers" - in other smartly. The Red directory of his instantly lose consciousness you do words, key officials and managers, factories are to see that this is not hear, the explosion of the rifle.. officers of the Army and Police, done.
* *
ONDE de CHOC
Soviet men of letters, painters who For years "the lascivious, decad- Jimn the triumphs of Bolshevism in ent Western fox-trot" was frowned peace and war-certainly regards upon by Red purista Indulgence Actually the first thing you hear itself; not as a separate class, but in such pleasures, except by the when an object moving faster-than į.
nas an"
An elite, a deserving vanguard of specialist personnel surrounding Its own sound passes over you is a the still vague and mfaty (foreigners, might have meant 're- aharp crack like a pistol shot. This "proletariat."
primand or event arrest. Now
is called the "onde de choc” and is Its growing, privileged comfort, Defence Commissar Voroshilof has not really, a sound wave, but a wave in the form of modern flats, cars, ordered all his officers to learn. of air which presses on the ear amusements, some
travel, better modern dances: Ever ́ ́university · drum.
food and clothing, is evidence of students are being taught them, Following this (in the instance of the progress and consolidation of The childish mass games in the a shell) come the noise of the Soviet society, for which the parks, which so delighted visiting detonation and the whine of the "responsible workers" provide an foreign "pinka" and other roman- object passing through the air. essential framework.
If an aeroplane passed overhead
Changed Ideas
tics, are now forsaken. Soviet youth dances to modern tunes. Already in the publie parks I notice railed-
five roubles.
|at a spacd greater than sound the noise would be no greater than at present, but it would not be heard existed in Russia. In a famous
Economic inequality has always off dancing enclosures, reserved for
those who can pay until the machine had already speech last February Joseph Stalin Teachers from the Opera Ballet are passed.
in attendance within. nctually erected it into a principle of Sovietism. It used to be prac-
Moscow's Shaps tised with great circumspection. What strikes me now, especially
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There is, of course. a great deal
links between the members of A flyer has enlisted Scotland Yard to after several weeks' absence in of trompe-l'll about all that. For Mr. R. M. Dyer wishes to convey the family of the Empire. At help locate a missing wallet containing Europe, is the sudden burst of every clearsighted observer. Moe- his sincere thanks and gratitude to the present conference no such $,1000. Has he looked in all bis air.
pockets?"
apeed with which it la coming out cow remains a very grim city. all those who so kindly sent sym- unhappy element should intrude.
into the open. This is a very im- House fronts are repainted, but for the unrivalled household remedy for all pathetic messages of condolence to
It is significant that the first
portant new fact, for economic, in-the most part cloak squalid, rickety, bim in his recent and bereavement problem discussed at Melbourne "My advice to you, Colonel, is to go equality, openly practised, densely over-crowded tenements. Rheumatism, asthma, sciatica,
was that of Empire, trade, and through the movements of driving leads to social inequality.
The windows of the new "commer lumbago, insect bites, sores, head(By cable).
especially, of course, the value of without using the ball," said the golf
This new fact is rapidly changlare bright with clothes and food, rial shops," "open to all citizens,” instructor. aches, coughs, colds, chilblains,
the Ottawa agreements.
Mr.
"My dear fellow," answered the ing the face of life in Moscow and but very few citizens can afford to piles, sprains and dislocations.
MacDonald pointed out that the Colonel, "that's precisely the trouble
a few other big cities-it is not huy in these places, and there is agreements were not dead, but I'm wanting to overcome.'t
yet apparent in the neglected pristill very little to be had in the "alive and kicking." The latter
vincial towns. It is quite plainly j term might also be applied to the
workers' "co-operatives." A college student wrote to his tolerated, and to Ottawa
some extent en-1 countries concerned.
father: "Dear Father: I am in the city conraged.
Yet 1 see humble folk pro- has received trenchant criticism and am broke,, and have no friends.
The Dictatorship: evid- all round. In Great Britain it what shall I do?"
ently believes that the stabilisation mending good-temperedly through has often been felt that the His father replied: "Dear Sen: Make can he safely attempted; now that "liseer's," the big provision stores the peasants are collectivised, the on the Tverskaia, just re-opened as "Model Gastronom, No. 1," with jold Intelligentsia
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* * No Time to Lose
Empire Parliamentary dominions, in particular Canada friends at once!"
an
Conference
from
Under-
and Australia have failed to şufficiently the implement
the
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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
What Bolsheviks meer at else-
as "unique in Europe."?........ State.
Not 30 very long ago the Kremlin announced that the "class-where as "State Chauvinism" is a less society" would be realized very important psychological factor in Moscow. The same haive. under the present (second) · Five-
Chauvinism is apparent in the rea-
Five cases of diphtheria were Year Plan.. Except in the most
.of.
"Some of you pedestrians walk as the saddle, everything has been pound.. They are getting some re The increasing importance of general undertaking by which if you owned the streets," Imperial relationships makes they pledged themselves to afford "Yes, and some of you motorists pretty well nationalised (etatised), valuable the proceedings of the tariff protection against United drive around just as if you owned your and everybody driven in under the shop described by the Moscow Press Empire Parliamentary Confer-Kingdom products only to those cars" ence now meeting in Melbourne. industries which are reasonably Although the views expressed assured of sound opportunities by the representatives are per- for success, and on a level which sonal and not official, this meet would give the British producer ing of delegates
the full opportunities of reasonable
It has also been reported in the Colony during the abstract Marxian sense, that has son that a young student gaye for dominions, India, and Great Bri-competition. tain takes on the appearance of felt that the Ottawa agreements 24 hours ended December 4...
not happened. Present-day society the official encouragement
dancing: in Russia is a "declasser acciety," Imperial Conference have been broken by New Zea
"A Red staff officer, attending Especially notable and helpful is land in regard to meat, and by
The m.v. "Silvercypress," from teeming with new castes or grades
the 10th Anniversary Celebra- the fact that the mother country Australia in regard to cotton New York sailed from Los Angeles humourist recently counted 68
tions of the Turkish Republic in on November 12, and is expected to -not a. classless is represented by such figures as goods. Furthermore, economists
one. What the
Angora was asked to dance by a Lord Milne, and Mr. Malcolm have pointed out that the expan arrive here on or about December Kremlin really seems to have meant
Turkish lady, but did not imow sion of British exports to British. MacDonald,
was that so-called "class war"-could
how to dance. That cast shade now be safely suspended.. Secretary of State for Dominion dominions has not proceeded
upon all of us!" Affairs. The method of confernce with the expansion of A concert will be held to-day at
Men Better Dressed
Thus renewed contact with the ence has now become established dominion imports into rest
pm. at the Helena May Britain. On the other hand, MP
en-puter world, although bh purely as a permanent principle of
The artistes are: Mme. The new Electoral Law, arranging affairs. "understanding Elliot's agricultural policy has points of view, and settling the been felt here to be a departure Luba Shattain, Miss E. Yuen, Mr. franchising a large number of de-official business, helps to change
from the spirit of Ottawa. That G. D'Aquino, Prof. H. Ore, Miss E. Ported peasants and holding out atmosphere.
hope of like favour to former (Continued on Page 11.) putes. In *the
Alves and the Choral Group. international
policy, in furtherance of the pro-
|bourgeois citizens now "regenerat- laphere-it-has-been-adopted more jand more in recent years." and tection of the British farmer The R.M.S. Empress of Canada ed," is evidence of this intention; the "average man in the street has used the three methods of would be considerably surprised the tariff, the quota, and the sailed from Shangbai yesterday The right to vote in a Soviet elec the evening, and is due to arrive here tlon actually means little, but the at the extent to which the processing tax or levy;
of the "depressed classes” is ac method is used through the second of these, the quota or to-morrow at 1 p.m. She will sail concession of It to some members "quantitative regulation" of im- for Manila at 10 p.m. to-morrow. medium of such bodies as the},
cepted as a signal that there will be League of Nations. The grow ports, has been resented here.
The RM.S. Empress of Japan less persecution in future, Its im- ing complexity of the interde At the moment there are pro-
Judgment was reserved by Mr. tests against the proposed re-arrived at Vancouver on Tuesday portance is symbolical. In Eastern of the British Commonwealth of beer to the United Kingdom. pendence between the members striction of the export of frozen and will sail on December 15 for countries symbols count for much. Justice P. Jacks at the Supreme
Hong Kong, where she is due to Under Dictatorship people rapid Court this morning, at the conclu Nations has also necessitated
ly develop a sixth sense, which tellssion of the Cheung Chan slander arrive on January frequent consultation on matters Looking at the matter in its
them when it is safe to begin doing action, in which Liu Kwan, a young of general policy, as well as on broader aspects, one must admit
certain things openly. They react Chinese girl of 18, is claiming $1,000 specific subjects. That the pre that the problem is complex, and euch unity will be strength. It instantly to changes of atmosphere damages for injury to her credit and "enlightened self-in high places. In the grim set reputation by Kwan Yip, a village setts ont adopt no resolutions tion. In the first place, neither interest," as Mr. MacDonald ting of Class war," even those on Elder and the defendant in, the sent conference will take no needs the most careful considera will mean
action
SLANDER ACTION CONCLUDES
Judgment Reserved
12
Is something in its favour, per-Great Britain nor Australia can/stressed at the Parliamentary the winning side must take care to M. A da Silva appeared on
Lo was for the defendant. After Mr. Sliva and Mr. Lo had addressed the court at length, touch-
ing upon the various aspects of the And, above all, their women rush case, his Lordship reserved judg
ret clothes, usually shoddy and ment.
haps, rather than a confining hope to set up an autarchy, ex- Conference. And finally in look like an oppressed proletariat limitation. More than one concept at a ruinous economic and spite of all the criticism, Ottawa What was sinful in days gone by behalf of the plaintiff, while Mr. M. ference in recent times has lost social cost. In so far as Ottawa has positive achievements to its is so no longer. Men who used to prestige by inability to arrive at continues the fallacy of economic credit. Empire, trade has ex-drese, down to look like manual satisfactory resolution, or beer nationalism, it is unsound panded since the agreements workers, now begin to dress up like discredited by the futility of economy. In so far as each The Board of Trade returns show members of the bourgeoise. those which have been passed member of the British Common that during the first eight The representatives of the wealth is an economic unit strive months of this year Empire dominions and Great Britain, noting self-sufficiency, certain com countries for the first time being tied down to rigid formula flicts of interest are inevitable brought from Britain, manufac can express themselves more On the other hand, these con- tured goods of British origin to frankly, and the aule dom ficts could be adjusted in greater value than those bought
cleare
friendly fashion and along con- by foreign countries. At the explain
In same time, dominion exports" to the United Kingdom have shown
of discussion
understandin
at issue and
of view
the Ottawa
PHONES
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with
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is perh
a continuous and expanding
his may be only
but
ritish trade re justfuable to
that some of the cre
the Ottawa ag
asly dear, in the latest fashion, at the new State
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the general stores Helena May Institute Pantomi laddin,' Opera, formerly owned by
red on Thurs- 318 and inof
an English firm, Muir and Merriday Dece
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