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The "Third Colonial System"
A WOMAN DYNAMO
By R. J. CRUIKSHANK
The Very Idea!
THE EXPOSE
Twenty years ago, what the government of a great power chose to do in its own colonies was assumed to be nobody's
By The Kelly Hondacka, The new mistress of the White | man once he gets there to keep in business but its own. To realize House has been called a dynamo touch with public opinion. That Kelly is sick. At least that's how times have changed one with a smile. She sums up in is where I believe I can help, since what the lazy devil anys. He was has only to glance over the herself all the aspirations of the my husband's mail is so tremen- sick last week, and poor little latest report of the Permanent most advanced feminists in the dous he cannot possibly look at it Junior had to write his column. Mandates Commission to the United States.
all. I think that my correspond- Now that he's been on the beer- Council of the League of Na- This younger generation con- cace is the avenue through which again, it falls to the lot of the tions. The Japanese Govern- siders that the old problem "Hus- we can keep in touch with the poor household drudge to do his ment was asked to say plainly band versus Career" has lost all public, and that it will give us a work.
reality.
real picture of the life of the coun Being only his wife, of course. whether it was establishing 7 naval base in the islands of the
with
It is because Mrs. Roosevelt has
country.
"Every woman," she says, "has
"Freedom For Children
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It believes that real freedom for try. So I hope that people will it's not for the likes of me to complain. Being only the poor. women consists of a combination write to me in Washington."). Pacific, and the French Govern of personal interests with a happy This is the first time that the wretched slave that he took ment was reminded that the marriage, a devotion to public aer-wife of a President has used the young unsophisticated and in, .. time was approaching when not vice with the rearing of a brood of plural "we," and it suggests that.
nocent from a mother's loving only part of Syria, but all of it. healthy children.
Mrs. Roosevelt is looking at the arms, who am I to utter a word? might be expected to make good
Presidency
But let me tell you, Mr. Editor, аб a partnership use of its promise of independ- been able to achieve all these venture. The average mistress of just the sort of a husband he's
the White House is as quite as a
been to me. ence. The mandates system has things in such a marked degree
I know the wretch only married already, only fourteen years that she is the idol of the pro-mouse, and is not expected to do
And since that anything more dynamic than offer me for my money. after its institution, passed be-gressive women of the yond the experimental stage. In fact, the mistress of the White an oyster pattie to the third secre- unhappy day, he's taken my all House, the First Lady of the tary of the Lithuanian Legation. He has trampled on my girlish Under this system, the Kingdom Land, as she is called in Washing. Mrs. Roosevelt fatends to give affections, in the same way he is. of Irak has completed its ap- ton society, may be fairly de-reality to the title of the First tramples into the house with bis
muddy boots. prenticeship and become a mas- scribed as the very Newest New Lady of the Land.
I've tried-ah, how I've tried to ter state in the worshipful com- Woman.
reform him. I've talked to him pany of nations. Placed in its
from morning until mid-night proper historical perspective, n' right to lead her individual life." Her views are those of a woman about the evils of strong drink the mandates regime now stands. It is a duty she owes to her hus- whom wide experience of human and all the brute does is walk out" revealed as a new era in colonial band and children as well as her- beings has made ifberal and taler of the house. affairs, following after two dis-self. Two days cach week, no ant. She is devoted to the great And he's cruel. Oh, Mr. Editor. tra-He's so cruel. Junior used his tinct epochs in the past. The matter where she may be Mrs. English classice, and never first of these has been called the Roosevelt travels to New York to vels without a bundle of books, razor to sharpen a lead pencil "old colonial system." Then a teach history and the English but she would not force rending and the depraved person colony was maintained solely in classics to the children of the on a child who has no taste for it at him--at my son--and threw a
Todhunter School. During her! the interest and profit of the arduous years as the Governor's is opposed to Prohibition heart
She has always been a Dry, but shaving brush at him. mother country--and the mo-wife at Albany she never once and soul, and she angered the Yes, Sir, I've tried everything. ther country frequently assum- failed the Todhunter School: She political Drys by declaring that the My mother affered him $100 to ed a very stepmotherly attitude. also runs the Val Kill furniture average American girl of to-day provide evidence for our divorce. After this system had in shop, which brings her a small is faced with the problem of learn-| He laughed at her-a twisted, some degree brought about income and provides employment ing, very young, of how much in- cynical sort of laugh-and told its own undoing, as eviden- for a number of people.
toxicants she can drink with safe-her he hated corruption more than ced by the successful revolt
During recent months she has ty, and then sticking to the pro-anything else in the world. She of the American colonies, raised a great deal of money for per quantity. That was the can-offered him $200 and he smiled a 1 mother who half-twisted sort of smile and a new era had its beginnings in the British Empire through the
sponsorship. She is in great de-atands the perils of her children made to corrupt him. Mother granting of self-government to mand s an after-dinner speaker, are not to be met by pretending offered him $400. He called that the principal overseas do- she sometimes fills speaking they do not exist.
a business proposition and took minions. The "new colonial engagements for her husband, she "I believe very strongly it is the $400. WAR DEBTS
system" introduced elements of edits a monthly magazine, she better to allow children too much
But then Mother called him freedom and consent into the makes it a point of pride never to freedom than too little, she says, rascal, a philanderer, and a good- Although the Roosevelt Ad-colonial relationship to such a ignore an appeal for help, and she "that it is better for them to get for-nothing. She said I was ministration has not yet reached degree that the regime was re- is a passionate bookworm. their feet wet than to be told at fool to have married him.
That was too much for me, Mr. any definite decision in regard to cognized both in Britain and One of her countless useful the age of fifteen to put on their the war debt problem, there overseas to be a vast improve-years was taking a class of young learn by its own experience, and paired. I must either lose face activities during the past five rubbers. Each generation must Editor. My judgment was im- seems every reason, after read-ment over its ing between the lines of recent To-day a
predecessor students into the New York State though it may be hard to watch or go back to Kelly. I went back. new generation of Legislature to show them exactly our children go through the same And let me tell you, Str, it was pronouncements, that a scaling candidates is marching up the how the people's laws are made mistakes that we made ourselves, not because of the $400. I always down might be agreed to, pro-aisle to receive degrees in the Her time is budgeted to the last it will do no good to pursue them was opposed to corruption. vided the United States is given university of statehood. Theirs minute. She writes on trains, with warnings. All we can do is a quid pro quo in the form of has been a comparatively shel- reads in bed, knits while listening to be worthy of their confidence." increased facilities for trade tered career. The kindly con- to speeches. She has never known Mrs. Roosevelt never establish- In spite of the fact that so many with the debtor nations. In the sideration which they have brought up five children remark- encouraged her children
a day's illness, and she has ed a nursery in her home, and of we taipans have been forced case of Britain, in particular, a ceived, and the concern
to take by circumstances to get rid of feeling undoubtedly does exist which their discipline has been able for their good looks and part in the conversation with the our powerful limousines, our in America that inasmuch as she tempered, will no doubt be re- Mrs. Curtis Dall, is one of the earliest fears.
splendid physique. Her daughter, visitors to the bouse from the yachts, and all that sort of thing, there is no reason why we should got the worst bargain of all in flected in their careers as in-prettiest girls in New York, and
not continue to study those' ob- her funding agreement, a re-dependent states. The world's her mother's inseparable com-
Dress Simplicity
servances of polite society which duction could with justice be concept of what colonial ad-panion.
have made the Colony what abe made. The tariff issue arises ministration should be has been Mrs. Roosevit is
Wealthy and leisured women in is, Heaven help her. This bring here, and it remains to be seen leavened by their example.
an extremely the United States have chided Mrs, ao, we beg to offer a few pro- hospitable woman, and-loves en Roosevelt for beiny so undignified blems in the new etiquette: whether Britain is prepared to
tertaining for her husband. as to earn money while her hus- open the doors wider for Ameri-
Their dinners at Albany and Tariff Walls
(Q) Mr. and Mrs. B. have gone band is a public man. She has to the pictures. Nowadays they can imports. This raises a nice.
Hyde Park are famous for their worked principally to keep her can afford only the front seats point, since it has been claimed Authoritative hints of the pos-friendly atmosphere. The Roose-favourite charities alive, but sec- but as soon as the lights go down by the British Government that sibility of American tariff ad-velts are one of those familles ondarily to supplement the family they duck and crawl back to the the British tariffs were intro-justments to enable war debts that think and act as one, a family income. Contrary to general be- more aristocratic back stails. In duced chiefly as a bargaining to be paid have raised hopes in that religiously honoure alte lief, Mr. Roosevelt is not a rich the dark, however, Mr. B. has the
domestic festivals. lever, in order to secure better many quarters outside as well
man. Compared with Mr. Hoover, misfortune to sit down on some- terms by inducing a mutual as inside the United States that My Partner and Myself
he is poor. He is a country gen- body'a bat. tleman who inherited about one. lowering of barriers. The ques- the upward trend of duties to
(A) Mr. B. should get back on tion, therefore, is whether Bri- which the world has been sub-in the United States gets more his father, and
At the same time, no public.man hundred thousand dollars from the floor again and commence to
a similar amount miaau. Everybody will take him tain would be willing to modify jected will soon be arrested. valuable help from his wife than from his half-brother. The for the theatre cat. If he fa her tariffa in favour of the According to the League of Na- the new President. Mrs. Roose- beautiful Roosevelt estate at Hyde stroked, he should purr, and he United States, merely for the Lions World Economic Survey celt, indeed, proposes to extend the Park belongs to the President's may even be offered a saucer of purpose of securing a revision for 1931-32, the upward move responsibilities of the President's mother.
milk, which is not to be sneezed of the debt agreement, whilst atment of the tariffs of the last wife. She said recently, "From Despite the great amount of at in these straitened days. the same time America's tariffa three years "was undoubtedly my previous life in Washington, entertaining she does, Mrs. Roose- remain unaltered. This is the accentuated both by the alarm I know how difficult
it is for a
(Continued on Page 5.) problem, also, which will face and resentment felt in many America's other debtors, since it countries as the discussion of seems clear that it is on this the new Hawley-Smoot, tariff basis that revision is likely to be dragged on in the United States considered. The next instal-Congress from May, 1929, to ments of the debt are due on June, 1930, and by the real June 15th, and it appears that effects of that tariff when it if agreement to pay cannot be went into operation.". If this secured, a moratorium may be diagnosis be correct, any move- granted until such time as ac-ment in a downward direction cord is reached, The negotia-started by the United States tions were to have started, be should similarly spread across fore now, but the domestic bank- the world. The hope that Pre- ing and other emergency ques-sident-Elect Roosevelt will re- tions have been a factor in the verse the tariff flow is therefore delay. In the case of Britain, | buoying up a great company of the ground has been somewhat business men whose trade tide prepared by the visit to Eng has been running out while that land of the British Ambassador of tariffs has been running in. to Washington and his confer-In the circumstances, it is ences with the U.S. Secretary of important to see where best to State since his return. In the start damming the tariff tide. main, the Roosevelt Administra- It would be unreasonable to ex- tion appears likely to follow the pect it to get flowing at "ful! lines
Mr. speed in the opposite direction foreshadowed by Hoover, making modifications all at once. A useful step would contingent on securing trade be to lower the duties on goods concessions. The British in-which are still being imported stalment, due in June, totals in spite of the height of the C$75,950,000. But it has al- tariff wall. The United States, ready been made plain by the for instance, it still buying British Government that there tweeds and serges from Great is no intention of continuing Britain in spite of a tariff of 50 payments on the old basis. In cents a pound plus 50 per cent. the case of France, she failed of the value. Similarly, Ameri- to pay the G$19,261,132 due last can machine tools are success- December, but it is believed that fully negotiating the British If the the Chamber of Deputies may tariff of 20 per cent.. shortly vote on a proposal to rates of duty on these articles tender the payment, despite the went down, the amount of busi- delay, and thus open up the way ness might confidently be ex- to new negotiations.
pected to go up.
"Mamina, make brother pay for his share of the gas,
"when we drive down to see you."!
BROKE.
(Q) You have staying with you an unwelcome guest, in the shape of a bailiff but when visit- ers arrive you introduce him as an old college chum who is stay- ing with you. But, as it happens, he has just left your friends under similar circumstances, and they know him well.
(A) Invite the bailiff to make up a four at bridge, solo whist, nap, coddam, or any other game bailiffe are likely to play. Ho fa the only person present who is likely to have any money, and you may win it from him if you have any luck.
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· THE MARCH OF SCIENCE, - A research worker has dia covered that sound waves will control bacteria and ao arrest the" decay of food. The sound waves, can be produced on an ordinary musical instrument. We look forward to the prospect of a Dairs Farm Salesman serenading zirioin of beef with a saxophone to prolong ita life; or to the com- pradore menacing with a mouth- organ an over-ripe Gorgonzola to prevent it walking out on him. Chilled eggs of all ages. would doubtless hum an accompaniment.
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CURE FOR PACIFISM Years ago we were friendly with a man who Euddenly be came a ranting pacifist. Arga- ment being useless, we put the matter to the test one day by giving the paelfiṣt a' smart box on the ears. To our joy": a fight followed. The ranter now readily admits that primitive instincta are ¿¡parataount.