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that
CAN THE SOVIET SAVE The Very Idea!
ITSELF?
By J. BAKER WHITE
THIS NECKING EVIL:
By Eddie Kelly, Sports Modol.
O us, lovers are nothing Tbut a pain in the neck.
We hasten to add, however, that wo are speaking now purely as a motorist.
Take away Matilda (we call our car Matilda) and we'd revert to " type within a few hours.
portant amendment to the Farm Bill has been approved by the President, authorising him to adopt dictatorial inflationist po- wers. He may debase the cur- rency by lowering the gold can- tent of the dollar, may accept silver in payment of war debts. paper He may issue as much
The end of the frat Five-Year | Stalin tried to got Blucher back to currency as he considera neces-Plan in Russia was marked by the Moscow, but he preferred to re sary
at his own discretion. most serious armed revolt there main with his troops and complete Sound-money economists wild has yet been against the Soviet his schome of fortified block shudder. But it is not at all cer- regime since the White armles houses-cum-farma for the protec tain whether President Rese- were driven from the country,|tion of the Eastern frontier. velt has succumbed to tho in-That is one of the most significant If the Soviet regimo starts to that has happened in crack, General Blucher is the man flationists, or whether he is ovents merely capturing a strategic Russia for months, and it has had to watch, for all the time he la
far-reaching results.
playing for power. The position, accepting the wide pow-
The revolt broke out in the Army is daily becoming a ers conferred upon him with no
the North important factor In Soviet politica, intention to make use of them, Kuban district In while temporarily, at all events, Caucasus, and was the culmina. The opposition to Eovletism has its think of. In tion of resentment against the roots in the villages, and the Red Hongkong on- keeping the inflation caucus Sovist agricultural collectivisation soldiers are predominantly of silent. It is recalled that and grain-collecting schemes. For peasant stock. Some bellove that ly a taipan or
military dictatorship, sup. President has pledged himself to months the Kuban peasants had a
a compradore "adequate but sound" no.15. been scothing with discontent, planting Stalin and the Politbur- can afford to run around while the anti-inflation views of defying the commissars and re- cau, is not so far away,
with a woman, Mr. Woodin and the men who fusing to cultivate their fields. lasted
There is, in addition, the con- pins a motor-car. surround him are well-known. The armed revolt, which
And so, on behalf of our fel- Another obstacle
continual struggle to collect foreign to unde in for thirteen days, caused
sternation in Moscow. Red
the low-motorists, we want to pro- currency. Having inflated flation is what is known as the Army division and air squadrons currency to the extent of printing test about this disgraceful "quantitative theory" of money were sent to suppress it, some hundreds of rouble notes all bear-poodle-faking that goes on along argument. Inflation, under 1,800 persons were executed, and ing the same number, the Soviet the Fanling Road and on the this definition, consists of thousands exiled.
must have credits, or dollars, Peak.
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with no commensurate Increase ficance remains. Five years ago for the vitally necessary pur-
The Menace to Parliaments
soaps..
M
clothes,
Con-
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When it came to hunting dig gamo in the olden days, we were one of the best Sexplorers in the Colony.
But now we've got Matilds to
We
conte
These rambling Romeos, alive to
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Some psychologiste advise us to live dangerously while others aver that love is the only thing worth living for,
But no psychologist told a man
to mix the prescriptions by pet. ting in front of a motor car.
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If only we could share their per-abandon we might use the road on equal terms, but were wo to at- tempt it we should find ourself be- " fore the beak on n manslaughter charge.
Beeldes, the Girl Friend wo always have besides us in Mo-. tilda is too highly strung. We're na misogynist, but we're
creasing the amount of money, The revolt is over, but its signi franca, marka, er pounds, to pay Just above the Reservoir, you in the amount of business r the Soviet leaders were told by chases from abroad. In the sup. see nothing but couples whisper- commodities, thereby boosting foreign exports that their agri-pression of the German Com-ing the little white lies within
schemes would prices. Even with a vast cur-cultural
fail. munist Party (the strongest unit the little white lines, leaving no To-day they are in the Bolshevik machine outside room for a mere motoriat. rency expansion, it is argued, They Inughed.
Why, we wonder, as we all the actual amount of circulating faced with failure, and once more Russia), European business mon of the
declutch, does the love which medium will not be increased. Government have been beaten by see the removal of one
drawe them on and on, also draw Nine-tenths of America's cir- the stubbornness of the Russian pillars of the Soviet State.
them on the road. culating medium consists of peasant. Many people tre hungry sequently every week will make it in Russia to-day. Every day com- more difficult for Russin to obtain
And do they declutch, too? SEZ cheques on banks. Huge num-plaints of the shortage of food credits from Continental countries. YOUT bers of notes may be printed supplies and of actual hunger are So every penny of foreign cur Heaven may hold their hearts, but they will only collect in the reaching Moscow. From the rency is welcome to Russia, and but only good brake-llning pre- banks and have the effect of minors comes the ery that they various balts have been placed to vents it from also holding their
spirits. weakening confidence in the dol-are being "starved and treated attract it.
Soviet newspapers circulating He might be calling her his pet lar without quickening expendi-worse than pigs." The children
contain and his darling when ture. Actual developments, in the camp at Malahova appeal amongst foreigners now however, will be watched closely, in the words, "Have you any advertisements such na the follow. spoeding around the corner, but he never knows how close she came Inflation is not likely to extricate bread? We are hungry. Take us Ing:
home." The Trade Union Press "How foreigners can profitably to becoming his angel. the United States from her finan-alleges that the workers do not and without risk invest their the call of love, are deaf to a pro- cial morass, even if a tempor-even receive their basic rations, savings. The State Bank of ary advantage appears to be so while the Commissar for Transport the U.S.S.R. wishes to announce sale electric horn. cured.
admits that one of the causes of that it opens current accounts in the chace on the railways is job- the names of foreign citizens leaving by railwaymon because of residing abroad in any foreign lack of food.
currency," AMERICA OFF
And these complaints grows Foreigners are also advised that GOLD STANDARD
ovor louder and over greater in they can purchase Soviet Govern- number. Those who are in a ment Bonda "for foreign currency,"
Tho Torgain Association America's decision to abandon
position to know prediet that ther Nobody can doubt that to-day will be a Camine in the near another bait for valuta. It an- At night these peripatetic pet- the gold standard is probably parliamentary institutions are future, with hundreds of thou-nounces that "you can send money ters are a positive menace, if only final for some considerable time seriously challenged. Even in sands, oven millions, starving, orders from your country to your because they are more numerous. But coming famine and counter. relatives and friends residing in While we are temporarily blinded to come. Strenuous efforts have Great Britain the Mother of Par-
liaments is attacked. Lord Pot revolutionary outbreaks are not the U.S.S.R. enabling them to by the lights of an approaching car been made by President Roose sonby, a former Minister, asks the only anxieties of the Soviet purchase goods in Torgsin stores," and they fade into the laky well velt and Mr. Woodin to avoid the in the Contemporary: Review, leaders at the present time. The It is perhaps illuminating that the ahead, their two hearts may beat stop, but the increasing which is believed to have come survive?" He points out, that currency are also menacing pro- in Russia which hold any but the from within rather than without, the conditions of living have blems. In the autumn of 1930 smallest stocks of has compelled the Administra- altogether changed; and it would Stalin had a trial of strength fumes, and
with certain Red Army leaders, tion to allow the dollar to de-instrument merely because it has there is real discontent in the Red will have
be unreasonable to cling to an and he came out on top. To-day In the coming months the Soviet preciate. The fact is
to face the greatest done excellent work in the past. Army-the basic reasons being crisis in its history. The Com- paralysis of industry and finance In Italy, Parliament, as it is non-payment of allowances to munist Party is torn with internal cannot be dismissed simply by generally understood, has vir- soldiers' familles and the ill-dissension. The first Five-your decree. The country has not re-tually disappeared, and it can- treatment of peasant relatives Plan has not produced the anti-hers to say that all the metering gained full confidence and the not be denied that there is a and certain high officers are re-cipated supplies of raw materials world doesn't love a lover. appearance in Congress of a great improvement in the execu- fusing to be amenable to Com-and manufactured articles. Quall-
A GENUINE WIZARD. powerful group determined totive capacity of the State, what-munist Party discipline. There is.ty of production is still appalling- inflate the currency has added to ever objections may be brought too, the contfauni problem of ly bad; not even the cleverest
-We write this under difficulties. keeping the Army proporly fed. the uneasiness and the uncertain- on other grounds to the
foreign specialists can make
Our notes at the moment, arala new Then there is the enigma of mechanics out of peasants. ty. There is good reason to be- Fascist system. In the United General Blucher, who probably Transport remains in a state of
bowl of goldfiah, and what was once our fountain pen is nibbling lettuce lieve that many American people States there is vast popular im- causes Stalin mere anxious mo-chaos and aggravates the food
In a corner, its large, vacant eyes in problem. The have been endeavouring to send patients with Congress, and ments than any other man
tempo of the blinking with supreme apathy. their money. abroad, to France steps are being taken to trans- Russia. Blucher is far away be- eccond Five-Year Plan has had to
We suppose we ought to have and to Holland although, at the fer some of its powers to the yond the Urals-in-command of the be slowed down. Peasants starve expected something of the sort. It same time, the outflow was not President for the period of Far Eastern Army, which includes or go into exile by the thousand is notoriously dangerous to board serious in itself and to economic emergency at least. the best troops in Russia; but his sooner than grow grain for the genning wizard in his lair. And yesterday after Mr. Wynno Jones's a large extent, the decision to France is agitating against a influence le felt in Moscow. A commissars to collect.
Food, or rather the lack of it, enquiry, we beared a whole, family abandon gold was
deliberate Parliament that does not always born leader and an able politican, measure of polley. The whole
appear equal to the demands no 18 looked upon by many as the and the attitude of the pensants of them.
But is it cricket? world will watch developments made upon. it, that is slow mov-man who aspires to be the Red are the two basic factors in the
Napoleon. A little while ago, crisis. with interest not unmixed with ing, especially in matters of anxiety. Grave doubts are en- finance, and that does not con- tertained regarding the future sider so much the general inter- of the American dollar. A perests as the interest of groups of iod of wide fluctuations in the citizens and the electoral advan- world value of the dollar is tages of parties. It is scarcely visualised in many quarters, necessary to refer to Germany, with an extremely temperament where the dictatorial method al market in stocks and shares has been practiced, despite many and commodities. Silver, par-elections, by at least four ticularly, is likely to be on the
in governments
succession. jump. The disturbing effect of As for Russia, it has ob- this uncertainty can easily beviously scrapped the old idea of understood. It is therefore Parliament, though it pretends satisfactory that in London, the to full representation of the situation in financial circles has people. The smaller nations of been marked by an encouraging Europe have, for the most part, steadingss. Sterling exchange never really tried the parliamen- appears to have been carefully tary system. Lord Ponsonby, controlled, while it has been after poking fun at the obstruc- impossible to check tho
tive, cumbersome and hesitating dollar depreciation. In Amer-methods of Parliament, declares ica, the ultimate effect of the "what is wanted is dictatorial po- abandonment of the gold stan- dard is minimised. It is felt wer without a personal dicta- tor, stability to try out and estab that while speculation may cause lish firmly the projects devised, n heavy drop in the value of the the delegation of detailed work dollar at the outset, the eventual
result is likely to be small. It to committees and subordinate: is pointed out that America rebodies, and the division of domes mains a creditor country with tic from foreign and imperial a favourable balance of trade, affairs by regional and separate assemblies." He advocates an It should not be difficult, in these extension of the practice of sub- circumstances, to peg the dollar
stituting for detailed legislation at a point close to its parity Orders in Council. The main value. It is also possible that thing is to get urgent work done, some sort of exchange control will be set up, strengthening to make and apply decisions. this position. Of paramount In order to save themselves, Importance in the final outcome, parliaments must discover and to their however, is the Presidential po confine themselves Hey regarding inflation. An im- proper jobs..
"Can't I do that time next month, yer honor? You 200,
I've already prad this month's rent,”
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BRAVE NEW WORLD. "Suicides in New York decreased from 1,682 in 1931 to 1,471 in 1982. The decreuse ja attributed by. Dr. Warren to Interest in the race for the Presidency."
P
--News item. Auntio, dangling from a hook, Gave me an old-fashioned look When I told her Mr. Hoover 'S great carcer at langth was
gover.
Mentioning how tight the no080
felt,
With a cheer for Mr. Roosevelt, Down she got, and put her head Into a large gas-stove instead.
NEWS FROM SIMLA. Following the recont arrival at Simla of the lovely Bahib sisters, Pukka and Notta, wo hear that two more delicious debutantės äre ex- pected the Chota slatera, Peg and Hazrl
Peg, the older, is a quite in- toxicating creature, very keen on Assistant Commissionere, Staff Majors, gymkhanas, midnight pic- nics, Mr. Kipling's vores, and every kind of sport. Her pyjama-dance of Mr. Kipling's "If" la the talk of the Mall. At the well-known Inst. 126:
"And what is more, you'll have some fun, my man," sho performs the grand scart balancing a foll cocktail-glass on her shapely Bitte nose.
Hazri, the younger. alster, has great dalk oyés and a high giggle. Thoir people aren't "Service," un- fortunately. (Not even Bappers!). However, everybody is terribly kind.