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TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1934,
EFFECTS OF THE
TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1934
NOTES OF THE DAY FRENCH HARDENING OF The Very Idea!
HISTORY IN 'MAKING
all.
OLD IDOLS
Franco,
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SENTIMENT
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ROBERT MACWHIRTER: During 1934 I will stay at home on Burns night and from the St. Androw's Ball, I will never touch another drop and liquer I will all my present supply of pass over to my friend Eddie Kelly,
THE LG.P will never visit an other cabaret. Never again will
shall taste spirits. Edward Kelly have the supplies I now have in my leo
chest,
will
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smoking, he can have the six boxes of cigarn that were presented to ma for Christmas.
MRS. EDWARD KELLY—I'm
going home to my Mother
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OUT AND HOME We're very fond of horses.
Our footsteps never lag When dashing off to Fanling.
To back our special nag. But, when the race is finished,
NEW YEAR'S DAZE way the In a subtle sort of
By Eddie Kelly, Pinked. coming of the New Year, 1984, has enhanced the feeling that we are
ESTERDAY we decided living in vital times, when history con is being made. The world
to turn over a new leaf. O-DAY there are signs of a the need of a stronger policy. 80 ob- never before have stood
hardening of sentiment in Thero ure,even circles which open- viously upon the threshold of a
It has always scom-ly discuss the advantages of what
Not that there's anything now age--with a choice of so many
to mo that Franco is fa called a preventive war. No- paths stretching beguilingly boed
understood. The legend body at present is prepared to go original in that Adam fore it, and so few of them-likely much
militariam persisted to that extreme. But the discus- thought of it long before we to lead to safety. Never before of its
hnd pacifism
bo slon, purposeless as it may be, in- has thore been n world-wide avhen
come obvious, Certainly it was dicates the gloomy view which did. audience, so intelligently aware of the issues and so anxiously hang well armed; but any observer who France is beginning to take,
There are calls for national ing upon the decisions of its rulers. went among the people and who We hear loose chattor of "world-listened to the political specohes union, in face of the international the bottom of it.
With us it was New disaster" and "the end of civilisa- could not doubt its peaceful inten- situation. It is feared that dis- lost cause. Atten- tion," but there is no "feel" oftions. Indeed, a simple process of armament la
havo
clearly tion is called to the semi-military Year's Eve. decadence in the air. Those who reasoning would
Theoretically at least, we are... are alive to realities must be ex shown that France needed at all organizations in Germany which
are undoubtedly largo in numbers now good boy. citingly aware of the glow, muffled costs to avoid war,
We have not allowed one drop stir of gigantic and creative So strong was the French desire if not particularly efficient. And
for any arrangement which would French fears have been aroused by of liquor to pass our lips this forces;
koop Europe quiet, that not only rocent expressions of nationalism did a minority of Frenchmen pro-In Germany. That there is a year. Last night we sternly EVE OF RENAISSANCE
test, but also a number of coun- change coming over French policy turned down a suggestion that we should join a poker school. trica which rely on French military 1s obvious. We stand upon the eve of great superiority. Poland, Czechoslova- Yet, without the agreement or We have not bought one packet ronalesance, a renaissance both kia. Roumania, Yugoslavia, and Great Britain and Italy. It is of cigarettes since 1983.
Gosh, it's hard being broke at economic and intellectual. Like Belgium did not complain of difficult for France to take a strong the renaissance of the sixteenth French militarism. They com- stand. It is perplexed. What this time of the month.
Thank Heavens century, a robirth and liberation plained of French pacifism. More course should it take which will be of the human mind which was ac-
than once they have been inclined best calculated to insure peace? willed. great companied by a
Qthor people make- economic to reproach France for betraying Notoriously Italy leans rather to- expansion springing from the dis-them. They have warned France ward Germany than France, In at this time of the year without covery of the New World, the re of the rapid growth of bellicose Great Britain there is a division any intention of keeping them. nalasance-to-be must bring with it feelings elsewhere; and they have of opinion even on the obligations But the Kelly spirit rises above the abandonment of many familiar asserted that if France displayed of the Locarno treaty, especially in that idenis which, until yesterday, were
firmness at the appropriate time, regard to the demilitarized Rhine- SOME LOCAL RESOLUTIONS. generally and unquestioningly nc-dangerous manifestations would land. In the final resort does the copted as the very stuff and being be averted,
Locarno treaty bind England? of progress. It is that shedding
The paradox of French policy May it not be so interpreted that, of long-cherished ideals which
has lain in this double impression in offect, England alone will be account for goca far to
the which it has produced in Europe able to judge whether it is called lugubrious forecasts of so many und America. In some quarters it upon to intervene? of our prophets, for whom the de-
has been blamed for not making cline of their long-cherished and sufficient concessions, though in These vital questions involve the long-unchallenged philosophies up, fact it has cut down its period of whole system of French Govern- pears, for a while, to be the end of military service to a third of that ment. Under the parliamentary re-
IL RUTTONJEE-Drink is a which obtained before the war, has gime, as practised in France, can
curso. I will wash my hands of it. cancelled reparations, has accord- decisions ever be taken in time?
Eddle Kelly can have my shares in ed theoretical military equality to A pensant is represented as ex-the Hongkong Brewery. Germany, and was prepared to pressing himself as follows: "Ger-
Mr. M.J. BREEN-Money is tho..
ovii. I For instance, the world of the old acquiesce in a system of general many and France should talk, but root of all
cannot con- wipo my Ideal-in which one country would supervision and reduction of arma who is there to talk for France? scientiously resolvo to DEPRESSION concentrate upon cotton and coal, ments. In other quarters it has in Germany it is Hitler on Mon- hands of it and retain the Colonial they another upon watches and toys and been accused of deserting day, Hitler on Tuesday. Hitler on rule Kelly to
I mo, Difficult as it is to visualise a third upon nothing but wheat allies, and permitting pro- Wednesday, etc... In France it allow
resign. In any case, Kelly can millions of workers out of em- is beginning to appear both unstable paganda among all at home which is Laval on Monday, Tardieu on have my present liquor, supplies.
EDITOR OF THE TELEGRAPH. ployment, it is even harder to and unhealthy. It is a dangerous could only be described as anti-Tuesday, Herriot on Wednesday,
incentive to war, to the conquering patriotic,
Daladier on Thursday, Sarraut on
will give Kelly another 260 get at the human realities lying of now markets. It entirely des French politicfans for years Friday, and Chautemps, on Satur month, Dash it all, where would
be without him. As I've sworn beneath statistics which tell the troys that balance of life which is allowed themselves to drift. For day." story of depression and partial as important in the nation as the my part, I believe they were right
individual. The nation of crowded, to abandon the systematic oppres France, of course, prides itaeli
factory-workers. Is recovery. A survey recently urban
lesssion of Germany which was on its long experience of parlia- lamentablementary governments. It, after made by a welfare organisationhealthy than the nation of country-authorized by the
dwellers and farm-workers. Russia, Versailles treaty. Where they Great Britain, has been a pioneer, among leading employers in
In fact, is sacrificing her peasants were wrong was in the lack of a and it cannot relinquish lightly an America, with a view to finding to her factories precisely at the constructive programme. Every-Instrument which has served it so out the precise effects of four moment when the rest of the world thing appeared to be wrung from badly. A Prime Minister once. is being increasingly tempted to France. France acemed to cede said to me that the Government years of acute depression, makes sacrifice some of its factories in under pressure. Instead of mak could only govern when Parlia enlightening reading. Most em- order to lay down more farms. Ing matters better, every Frenchment was on vacation. If the ployers report that the jobless Again, the system of international move made them worse, in that it Cabinet can only contrive to reach, investment means that the owner seemed to denote mero fecbleness. for example, the summer months men who have managed to get ship of a factory in Tokio or Buenos A strong man can afford to be without being upset, it is safe for back to work have been changed Ayres may be shared between a generous; but generosity under a little while, and can actually at- deeply. They suffer from a New York stockbroker, a Cambridge constraint gives an appearance of tend to its administrative duties.
professor and a spinster in Tooting, weakness,
The bloc system renders the life mental depression not easily dis-all-for they may retain their hold-
of a government particularly pre- Now France is faced with a carious. No party has a stable pelled they still worry about ings but for a month-only bem-
porarily interested even in its pro- dificult problem. Unquestionably majority. It must rely on votes, the future, and in many cases nts and not interested at all in its it wishes to come to terms with for which it must pay a political have lost faith in themselves social effects upon Japan, or South Germany. Its politicians are price, on the Left or the Right, and in society. They show the America. This system has never extremely reluctant to take any The Radicals have chosen to de- step which might be misinterpret-pend on the Left-that is to say, effects of long-continued nerve been particularly moral; "flights"
of foreign capital, and othered abroad. Yet it is seen that the Socialists-and they must strain, and their efficiency AS
phenomena of a like nature, make French relations with Germany therefore play the Socialist game. workers is therefore impaired. it begin to look as if it was not are reaching a crisis. Hitler has When this becomes Impossible, as gone from strength to strength. in moments, of grave difficulties. There is almost a pathetic enger-particularly economic either.
The plebiscite carried him to the then they must appeal to the ness to make good in their now
pinnacle of power. He has ex-Moderates, who are split up into jobs. In many plants, the ac-
pressed a desire for peace, but in many factions. All kinds of com- France a large section of opinion binations may be formed, but none cident rate has risen, because
holds that his overtures are merely the men, although out of prac
efforts to gain time, and that the of them of any more permanence
than a kaleidoscope. tice, are anxious to do as full a
ultimate conditions of peace may bo inacceptable to France and its day's work as possible. Most of
allies. A conviction which, whe
A prime minister has colleagues the men returning, are moreover,
ther well or fll founded; is at least in his Cabinet who are not unwill-ce, as murderous worm hopes, he (Continued on Next Columus.) harassed by debts; many have other serious family problems slavery to an end within a period of twenty years. Recent reports brought on by the depression. received from this Department What is more, in numerous in-show that although progress is stances the returning workers slow, a good beginning has been made. The Department is under are in poor physical condition, the control of the former Ethio- due to continued malnutrition. plan Minister in Rome, whilst an was formerly Another circumstance of which Englishmaan, who note is taken is that those har-adviser the Minister of the In- terior, has been appointed as Ad- dest hit by the depression are visor to the Department. At pre- not being re-employed in any sont the Slavery Department is great numbers. Employers are, concentrating its attention chiefly on #reventing slave raids and the it appears, forced by economic trade in slaves. This is of special. necessity to re-engage those men interest and importance to the who look most physically fit British Empire as raida are con- stantly made by Abyssinian raid- which usually means that the era into British territory and a men who have been out of work considerable sum of money has to the shortest time are the first bo expended by the Government of the Sudan in patrolling the to get jobs. These facts, and frontier in order to prevent the others which could be cited, raids: show that simply restoring jobs does not wholly meet the pro-
Even so, the raidera constantly. blem. And what is true of the United States is possibly like-succeed in ovading the patrols and wise truc, to some extent, of enrry off large numbers of British Bubjects particularly children. other countries as well. It will One of the chief difficulties con- take a very long time, oven once fronting the Slavery Department. la that some of the highest men are reabsorbed on a largo Government officials aro
them In the concernod scale, before the full effects of solven years of unemployment are wipalave trade. Recently the Emperor ed out. The known facts recalled a conference of Government garding the physical and mental officials to discuss with British re- prosentatives means of stopping deterioration of men who have raids. for alaves into British ter- long been without jobs are suf-ritory. Although the Abyssinian ficiently impressive, apart from delegates asserted that they had no any other reasons, to warrant knowledge of the raids, it was dis children were actually in the pos every nerve being strained to covered that some of the abducted solve the unemployment pro- session of the delegates them.
solvès.
SLAVE TRADE
Three months ago the Emperor of Abyssinia established a Slavery Department at Addis Ababa. This Department was established in fulfilment of a pledge given by the Emperor to the League of Nations
that he would bring
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understandable, now prevails of
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"But there wasn't so much history to learn when you were my age,"
Our footsteps, always lag As we go, cash diminished,
Back to our special ring.
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The Worm in the Garden of Edon Adam worm arrives late in Garden of Eden having been out with witty serpent.
Oh, so this is the way selfsh worm treats poor overworked Eve who has given Adam worm best. years of her life, ie it? Just be- cause Eve made out of worm's silly ribbone worm thinks Eve chattel and slave. If worm thinks Eve. Eve going to stay in Garden while dirty-minded worm listons to dis- gusting stories told by wicked ser- pent, worm greatly mistaken. For all worm cares Eve might be enten by lions and tigers. In fact, quite possible 'worm left Eve alone on purpose so that he might get rid But if Eve of useless chattel.
had better realise that there is no other woman in world and worm would look pretty foolish married to serpent. If there were other. women in world no doubt Adam worm would be ogling first shame- less blonde he met to say nothing of finding her new fig leaf which would rightly bolong to Eve.
If worm doesn't behave himself they will both be turned out of Garden of Eden and perish in de sert. And as dinner alrondy apolled, worm had better eat for. bidden fruit as there is nothing else.
Worm ents forbidden fruit in subdued allence,
Ing to trip him up in the hope of taking his place. The ministers must constantly appear before a number of commissions to explain their policy. They are treated like culprits at the bar of justice. The commissions, in their turn, are subjected to extra-parliament bry influences. There are party congressos whose decisions must be awaited. There are syndicates. which put pressure on the de- putics. Thero are secret organt- sations which are extremely powerful. So that, even before. the Government reaches the Par liament proper, it has run a gamut of intrigues, attacks, critic lama, and conspiracies. The mar vel la that, obliged to "pose the question of confidence" perpetual- ly. It can fulfil ita functions it all, and that it can fast aven for a few months.
This may be an amusing game when there are no matters of urgent public Importance to deal with; but it is a tragic game when the country is faced with dangers at home and abroad; 2-