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FOR DECEMBER,
Including a fine selection of cheery dance records for the Christmas season-ask to hear the following by Russ Columbo & His Orchestra.....
24076 As you desire me-Fox Trot
The Lady I love Fox Trot
My Love-Fox Trot Lonesome Me-Fox Trot
24077
¿With vocal refrainsby Russ Columbo)
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1932.
THE PROBLEM OF
POVERTY
can
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1932.
be strong need for such bodies as the Society under notice. It is something to the good that there
are
men and women willing to give of their time and labour in such beneficent work. Complementary to their efforts
WHAT ELSE DID ALFRED DO?
By R. SCOTLAND LIDDELL
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Bulls and Inners
From the Olloe Butts
One thing about firamen. They When good King Alfred hang up their hose all the year we are glad to notice more being sat before the cowherd's fire round! done by other agencies in the and paid no heed to the poor creation of Infant welfare
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cakes, he The boxing season reminds us centres, in safeguarding the in-housewife's
that a man hins to be OK, to land terests of little servant girls, and burned (although he did not a K.O. in charitable and educational know it at the time) the
0, 0 work amongst the very poor. records of his glorious We live in stirring times.
Hore we have evidence of a quickening of social service, a healthy sign of the times. But the measure of success of these efforts is the extent of practical support by the public. For which reason, we appeal to the com- munity to take an even greater part in helping those who cannot themselves.
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no
Bartex
accomplishments.
| Christmas puddings are now being
made.
King Alfred, as we ought to "He was know, was a wise man. the wisest man that was in all shifters those who do it for a There are two kinds of scene- England." Ho
Was the first, in
England, to wear the royal crown, living, and the novices at Fanling,
口口 He divided England into counties. He instituted Eagland's national militia. His deeds are legion- deeds of achievement for his coun- made over a friendly cigarette, Bays a writer. Trado follows the try's good.
Many o big business deal in
Alfred the Great was truly Groat for! --but all that average schoolboys and schoolgirls can tell you of this mighty man is that he burned the wretched cakes.
Robert Bruce was also a great man. King Robert 1 of Scotland reigned for two and twenty years. What do you know of Bruce?" I asked a bright schoolboy the other day. NOT FORGetting thE SPIDER.
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"What does any husband know, about women's fashions?" asks a ladies' journal. The price.
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"An I deal gift," as the bridge enthusiast and when he received a pack of cards.
New
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De-
"He was the man who watched a spider," he said, hesitatingly, anition: The
you know-If at first you don't
Christmas spirit succeed, try, try, try again.””. IN
fealing "What "Try what?" I asked,
which obliter- was it Bruce made up his mind
ates past din. to try?"
He did not know. The deede appointments in lost in the con- the contempla- of Bruce were fusing maze of a small spider's tion of a good present in the web.
"Nero?" I attempted. What do you know of him?"
"Nero fiddled while Rome burn- ed." he anid.
near future.
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In full view
British politics are too firmly in the grip of apostles of or thodoxy to permit the Govern-
the to accept
Bartex ment scheme for overcoming foreign exchange restrictions, even were the proposals practicable, which is extremely doubtful. The London Chamber of Commerce, who put them forward; would claim
thun more
that the plan is a rough-and-ready way of doing something to check the decline in world trade. Even the mechanism of inter- national trade is delicate and a rash rush into the scheme might make things even worse. There are several objections to the London Chamber of Commerce scheme. In the first place, the scheme makes no allowance for what is known as triangular trade. That is to say, imports of goods and services from one country are not always equalled by exports of goods and services to that same country. For ex- ample. British exports more to Brazil than she imports from Brazil: she also imports more
There is something evrong, I He was a post- would submit, with history as it is from the United States than she taught. The sugar coating is en- exports to them, and the dif-tirely disproportionate to the small ference is made good by Brazil pill. The medicine is swallowed exporting more to the U.S.A. (and does little good), but the than she imports from them.sweet useless taste remains.
"What do Then again, though account is
you know about George Washington?" I asked n taken of shipping services no ac- count is taken of interest pay schoolgirl (aged sixteen). ments from overseas, which are one of Great Britain's largest sources of foreign income; there would, therefore, always tend to be a surplus of imports over ex- 'ports. Further,
the
system
A Bicycle Boom
:
But that the fiddling was the of the public. overture to a great massacre of a man yesterday Christians, when Nero blamed for calmly emptied putting the Eternal City (for the a pillar-box in moment) to an end, the schoolboy Kowloon did not know. He knew about the walked off with fiddling-but did not know of the the contents. ensuing score.
"You mean," she answered flip- Pantly, "the little prig who could-
n't tell a lie?"
"I am raferring," I replied severely, to the first. President of the United States.
***Sez you!"
(The mo-
"Sez me!" I roared. dern schoolgirl is, at least, bi- lingual).
If only George had been a Bar, the truth of his real claim to fame might easily have been much better known,
So there you are. I have told of one schoolboy and one school- girl. But I might just as well have asked the queations of grown- ups to get the very same replies. We adult swallowed the same
minn.
and
Saying of the Week:-"Don')- you think we might give them
something a bit cheaper than that?" ᄆᄆ
A scientist suggests that colours
can be heard. He must be think- ing of these Christmas nackties. ១ ព
If Shanghai has its dance halls,
What matter that to unl The northern city's pitfalls,
Shall not cause us a fu88. So far we have averted,
The avalanche of sin; Let others bo perverted,
By syncopated din. London may have night clubs,
Singapore boasts cabarets; Java with Its bright pubs,
May turn the nights to daya Paris with ita Police
And female drapings scent, Shall not make us teas holy,
We'll scorn the charge of cant. We hate the thought of badness,
It only makes us grieve.-- But
Boy! what times of gladness,
Whon next we go on leave!
-CYN.
Henry said the naggging eife, as she prepared to retra, "ik everything shut e for the night?"
"That depends on you," mul- tered Henry. "Everything clao is."
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Do turkeys
mako good pets? asks writer in a Home magazine, They certainly take a
lot of Beeton at this time of the year!
A
The bones of ди Ice Age mammoth have been found un- der a golf linke
in America. Some
novice
must have made colossal ax- cavation.
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According to a writer, golf is
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was,
Thanks to the activities of some players, many clubs are un doubtedly losing ground.
Oh, here's to Yuletide jollity, and further sex equality Expressed in that, frivolity with which creation's lords Are joining in the hectic game (regarded hitherto as tame) That burns with undiminished flame among the female For these, indeed, are stirring Aosthetle dancing is where days, when bargain coun- three earnest girls are snapped, ters can amaze
while leaping into the air in With all their lure of choice unison, by An uncomfortable displays, the strong and photographer lying on hig
The radio has certainly given life to a lot of old jokes. Still, a lot of them don't sound as bad as some of the new ones at that.
bordes.
allont type, Inspiring them to eulogise on handkerchiefs and socks and ties
Until it's time to rhapsodise
about a perfect pipe..
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"A weasel-worded elongation of
brand of wills which are adminis-attenuated innuendoes." No, that tered to-day. Ask any man of Al-is not a tongue-twister; merely a of the fred, Bruce, George Washington. Tory politician's idea etc. and he will glibly talk of Labour Party's platform. charred enkes. spiders, cherry trees...
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are
We know the trifling legends of¦ Of turkey-buyers it may be suid
they
paying their the great; forgotten are the noble that deeds. To change my metaphor: weighs.
they let the grain pass through,
The minds of most of us are sleves
but still retain the chaff. Let us as sing are to make their appear Carol singers who dance as well have larger grains, then-smaller unce at Home. Waits and mea.
If evidence were, needed of the necessity for existence of such an organisation as the Society for the Protection of Children, it
be found in abundance in the annual report of that body, just issued. Most of us, it is to be feared, give little thought to the sordid conditions under which so many thousands of the children of the Colony exist. Every now and again, we come across reminders of the hardships which they suf-, would create a fictitious rate of fer, and we may be moved to exchange for each country which some act of charity in individual might differ widely from the cases. But the calls of our own normal currency rate of ex- daily lives tend to give us little change. The intention of the ocension to stop and think about scheme is that imports from a the larger problem of which country should be liquidated by these reminders are a symptom. exports to the same country, and The bald fact is that the great the result were it to be adopted mass of the population in Hong-might well be to force importers kong has to eke out a living well to take goods they did not want below a decent subsistence level, from the countries least well Hongkong is not peculiar in this adapted to producing them, respect; the same conditions can be found in all big cities in the East. The causes are many. but, in part at least, they are to
Consternation stirs the be found in the fact that we have bosoma of British motorists. The in our midst large numbers of
cause is not the taxation, high unskilled workers, the casual
as it is. We have grown used to Inbourers who make a living as taxes. If any part of his income best they can. These are to be should perchance be left after seen along the waterfront, in Somerset House and the Inland our streets, on the hillside roads Revenue Office have done their husks.
many of them doing the work dire but necessary work, the of beasts of burden, patiently astonished taxpayer feels fairly and often cheerfully struggling satisfied. At the risk of mix- with loads which tax their ing metaphors, it should be said strength to the utmost limits. at once that the agitation is.duc What kind of lives can these to a horse of quite another people live in the best of times?colour. By which is meant a And how can they possibly man-bicycle, or, rather, battalions of age to subsist when work is bicycles. After u gloomy de scarce? What is even more cade of being jostled off the road pertinent to the issue is how they by the haughty motorist, the can provide for their children.bicycle is coming into its own. If we want to gain some idea of Phalanxes of care-free cyclists the conditions under which these present a barrier to the shrink- people exist, we need only turning car-owner as impregnable as to the word picture which the was once the British square to Society's report gives of the the onslaught of foreign foes. terrible conditions which pre- To be truthful, the prospect vail in our slum districts. The pleases. One of the most pic- Bordid facts disclosed shouldturesque sights of the late nine- stimulate the public to support ties was the return at nightfall the Society which in the past into London at the close of a year has handled no fewer than day's holiday of thousands of 881 cases, involving 1,648 chil-happy cyclists. Chinese lanterns dren. The work which this dangling from the handlebars of body is quietly doing, along their machines. Singing, and sound and common-sense lines, often hand in, hand, they were a is worthy of the highest praise.gay company riding home from Admittedly, only the fringe of a many a wold and wood at the very large problem is heing end of a perfect day, a thousand touched. The Society's officers twinkling lights vying with the would be the Arat to admit that atars above. much. But what is being done is capable of steady expansion, and, even on the present scale, is. bringing some sunshine into
drab and dreary lives. Until living standards are raised-n
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
` AFFECTATION 18 A GILEATER ENEMY
process which in the East mustTO-THE FACE THAN THE SMALL POR." bo laboriously slow-thore will ' —St. Euremont.
Hures,
stomach.
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Russia is said to have lifted the ban on gay necktica. But since Christmas has been abolished the concession is of no great im- portance.
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the
The turning point in many ( young man's lift is when the girl gets terribly interested in furniture advertisements.
DO Australia's hopes in the Tests are turning to Ashes.
nobles, convicted of an attempt to The property of many Spanish
restore the Manarchy, has been confiscated. That comes from building castles in Spain.
A well-known artist was recent- ly forced to pawn his effects. Pop goes tho casol.
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Amy Johnson couldn't beat her husband's record to the Cape.. Which makes him still the wife benter,
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Statisticians report that the langest kiss' on record was when the Scotsman kissed his money good-bye.
Edward Kolly says that India Isn't the only place that has "Untouchables". He was walking
around the office trying to raise ä
loan yesterday,
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Maurice Tato hopes his baby son will turn out a bowler. A "goo- goo"-gly.
The happiest time in a man's life is when he holds her hand and she holds her tongue.
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We suspect Edward Kelly of editing a film page which is
always full of three stars.
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A Merry XXXmas.
Nineteen Hundred and Thirty Too-tic-oo.
are you going to do during Christmas?”