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MONDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
AIR MAIL SCANDAL
FEBRUARY 12, 1934.
IN THE WIND
TITH little publicity attendant, as raw materials for the factorios.
President. Roosevelt's drustic W upon their ultimato con- Probably they will work a. few
action in cancelling all air mail contracts in the United States sequences, some changes promis-hours each week in the factory for
The Very Idea!
HERE I LIE!
By Eddie Kelly, Bowling Expert.
suggests that the White House is ing momentous influence on the a high wage and own the chief WE have now reached that stage in life when In the possession of a great deal future history of the United States mechanical tools of more enjoy"\nothing interests us but a mere information than has been are well under way. Probably able life. publlely disclosed.
Important than the Instead of squalid "company" good game of bowls. suspicious enough. Clerks In the eagerly watclied activities of the shacks, or worse, they will live. We're through with sow- office of the Postmaster General National. Recovery Administration either on their farms or in modeling wild oats. Us for the in Washington havo acknowledged
even more And that in
correspondence" was destroyed. ing changes of vast scope, Nevertheless, a good deal of correspondence dealing with the
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that large files of personal and are the fast materializing giant homes, on model streets, near departmental correspondence of reclamation projects of the West model schools, and other such quiet life, on the rinks be- tween drinks, and drinks be- the former incumbent. in office and of the Tennessee Valley pro- "model" things as already exist in were burned at his order before ject in the south; for, taken to-the Government's town for Its tween rinks. he loft office last March. Mrgether, they point toward impend-workmen at Boulder Dam, which
No more merry parties. Brown declares that "no official
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city often described by No more wine and women. Last year the United States Gov. Idealists for consummation some-No more-but that's enough
promises for the time being.. air mail contracts, the subject of orament realized half a million time in the future. Use acuto controversy ever since an dollars profit from its eloven com- word "model" in connection with
seems singularly, ap- From this, you will judge that Investigation into the system of pleted, and operating western pro- this town award was begun, undoubtedly jects, which was little enough to propriate because children from we have at last discovered a went up in smoke and restricted make considering the initial in-about a third of the city can go real use for lawns, and we don't the offorts of the Government vestment, but none the less signi- Committes seeking to get at the bottom of the alleged scandal.
PUBLIC CURIOSITY
the ance
Hongkong Telegraph. THOROUGH ENQUIRY.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1984.
to accept the mandate "only on
tion.
the understanding that there RUSSIA IN THE EAST was to be no change in the basic fact that Japan-owned-the
Distinct
of the
ficant because the mere fact that to school without crossing a single mean what you think. the Government has at last made street; each house is on a private And yet, lawn bowls is some- money from its efforts to make the driveway away from traffic lanes; thing like women. "desert bloom as a rose" heralds each houso has abundant lawn and
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and
Women
But women can't fascinate you as much as bowls do. There's a sort of intoxication about it. It alters your whole, outlook.
In the Club House, after a hard fought battic on the fields, or lawn. you learn the now arithmetic.
Two pinta make one quart, four- quarts make one gallon, one gallon makes one merry.
But let's skip that.
Good bowling is a matter of tem---
can't go
In bowls you use plenty of as one reclamation engineer face-garden space of its own and has tiously put it one principal casy access to public parks; down-bias to get to the jack.
are town parking is abundantly pro- means by which Americans
bias this and bins that. The very assertion that such again to be made to feel like happy vided for, and, all things consider also get at your jack with bias-
ed, it is a town with some sense records have been burned sets
cows in grassy fields."
to it. It was designed for the a spark to legitimate public
It is a rather pleasing picture, Reclamation Bureau by Mr. S. R. curiosity as to just what took place in the letting of the air mail this look into the future, as it is DeBoer of Denver. contracts in question. Certainly painted by engineers; a composite great dams, of vast If the further testimony of wit picture of
Those who have visited the nesnes is true that the former electric power networks, of smali Postmaster-General acted us a and carefully tended farms, of 200. Muscle Shoals project havó seen sort of tsar of the incipient avia-mile-an-hour trains linking the the vast real estate developments WINYARD. This Morning at his tion industry laying out the trimmense domain into a unit. The laid out thore for future growth be pieced together and of a relatively model charac residence, 43, Hil! Wood Road, mail map and the bidding specifi- picture can Kowloon, Frederick William Wincations, with particular companies something like this: Take the ter.
as the 11-
Besides Boulder Dam yard, late of the Howloon-Canton in view, allotting routes in accord-Boulder Dam project
leaves Railway. Funeral
with prior arrangements lustration. The primary purpose, Monument at 6 pm. this
underway, considerably after rather than according to the bids, it may surprise some to know, of Muscle Shoals, another project is noon. (Home papera please then the plain intentions of the the Boulder Dam is not to irrigate now copy).
congressional act and presumably some eight million acres of arid larger than either of these two. the wishes of the general pubile soll, although it will do that very! It is the glant Columbia River properament. If you go along for a were thrown to the winds.
nicely; its chief ends will be con-ject at Grand Coulee in the State: trol of Colorado River flood waters, of Washington, which will back game just after you've had a row- with the wife, your woods will in- which in times past have done water up to the Canadian border, variably finish up in the ditch. things to California's Imperial control floods, irrigate new acres,
If you've just received your Valley, and generation of elec- and supply electricity to the whole tricity. With a reclamation pro- Northwest. In addition the West annual bonus, the wife has had a Americans certainly hoped when ject usually goes a dam, and with is already dotted with similar, only son, the price of whisky has come the Teapot Dome scandal was a dam in these days of engineers smaller and less spectacular pro- down, or you've successfully evaded
the major shroffs, you more or less mopped up that goes electricity, and with electri-jects, and the new avenues of gov
wrong.
When you send down the winning the national capital for at least a somebody will be using it. Now, by recovery legislation promise wood, it's termed the shot. In any shady practices had passed from city, industry being what it is, ernmental participation opened up JAPAN'S MANDATES
political generation. But the dis- Boulder Dam will generate
con- many more shortly.
case, you're liable to get shot, and Japan's reasons for declining closures affecting the Shipping alderable electricity, enough, as a With his automobile, the labour- the heads you play are nothing to to give up possession of the Board and now the air mail may matter of fact, to supply all of er living on one of the projects the head you have next morning. islands in the Pacific which she assuage the regret of some at the Southern California. It will gen- may drive over in the morning to Another thing, there's nothing holds under mandate from the change of Administration Inst crate it cheaply, but also profit do a few hours of machine super-like bowls for teaching you how League of Nations were recently year. They whisper the moral ably-so profitably that it will pay vision at one of the loncl factories, to make excuses to the headache disclosed by Mr. Hirota, the that le shouted by the Bayonne for the entire project in less than or he may drive out to his acres when you arrive home late. Foreign Minister. When the Credit Municipal embezzlement half a century--yet, again, so of irrigated land which he furus We remember the last time we
In France-official Integrity is the cheaply that large factories are with Versailles Peace -Treaty was keystone of a republic. De bound to centre around it for owned with his neighbours. His
machinery co-operatively missed our dinner. being drawn up, ho declares, it cratic party leadership, through power, just as
"M'dear", wo said, "old Whales- the cotton mills abundant afternoon leisure might teeth had a stroke at the Club this was at first intended that these Senator Black's committee, pro-located in New England at the be spent delighting in the arts, evening, and we had to see him islands should be handed over to poses to go thoroughly into what break of the mountains to utilize writing an article on how to in-home. Terrible thing, poor fellow, Japan outright, but subsequent ever hints there may be of mis-water power a hundred years ago. crease crop yields, or who can but the doctor thinks ho'll be ok. ly they were mandated to her.doing in the previous Administra
say7-a litle spring verse for to-morrow." Japan, says Mr. Hirota, agreed
"The Casual Day," Already cor plaints have been
And ditch he swallow it! naised about the low cost at which Not the least of the changing
The Ittle white ball is either power from the Muscle Shoals aspects might be in the methods project is to be sold, and one effort of government. The boundarios known as the Kitty or the Jack, slands." If this represents the fleance is seen in the recent decree be
International sign of these projects would appear-to-of the various projecte may in time--Wo cannot discover why it should... the and of privately owned represent the divisions of govern-be given a feminine and masculine full strength of the Japanese of the Soviet Government guaran-power concerns, for they can't ment, with the present counties name, but we strongly suspect that case, it is to be doubted whether teeing certain advantages to compete with the low cost of water and states losing their identities. the phrase "Sporting on the village. it will carry conviction anywhere workers and pensants, Govern-power, nor raise sufficient capital This, of course, would tend toward green" originated from these two
contralization of government with words. else than in Japan. Much has mont employees and soldiers In to build similar projects.
consequent tax savings.
Drake is known as the father of been heard of alleged secret the Russian Far East. Under the With the factories moving to
bowls. The father of cricket was understandings by which Japan terms of this decres wage and the reclamation projects, the rest
Boulder Dam is almost a reality. also a member of the poultry family nre prescribed was to secure certain territories salary increases as the spoils of war, but the out. for all dwellers in the eastern seems to follow in obvious order. The others are close behind. The and is often referred to to-day, as
Great masses of what is politely profits from electricity have Duck. regions of the Soviet Union; standing fact is that the Peace while peasants are exempted from termed "submerged humanity, already started. Somebody, used Treaty is the only germane the burdensome grain tax for ten which is to say, "undernourished, the electricity and somebody ate highest authority that when the document affecting the situation, years if they belong to collective underthinking Industrial workers the food, for government reports Spanish armada approached Eng- and Japan, as well as all the farina, for five years if they have will be drawn from their present show that 94 per cent, of the food land, Drake refused to go out and
congested slums to the more "wide grown on the projects last year other signatories, is bound by its individual
established what open spaces" where doubtless the was also consumed right on them. fight them until he had finished his
game of bowls. since Japan provisions. These provisions
mere change in environment will do Already some manufacturers apenk amounts to a protectorate, over
Then, leisurely Jumping into his certainly did not make a present Manchuria, the vast, sparsely them much good. They will pos- of moving to the farms-Henry
out to meet the of the Pacific islands to Japan. populated Russian Maritime Pro-sibly have small farms, growing Ford for one-so it is something ship, he sailed
enemy. Drake skipped the English. Japan was granted a mandate to vince on the Pacific which forms what they need for food as well to think about.
team, and, by a series of brilliant hold the islands in sacred trust the hinterland for Vladivostok
shots, defeated the opponenta. on behalf of the League of has been in an exposed position. Nations. It is a contradiction in The military defences of this part terms to suggest, as Mr. Hirota of the Soviet Union have been does, that this mandate was ac-greatly strengthened. At
same time the possibility that the cepted on the clear understand Soviet Far East might be ing that the islands were to be theatre of conflict has acted as a Japan's own property. The deterrent to new settlement and status of mandatory Powers is hns caused some inhabitants to in no sense mystifying. It is consider the advisability of mov that of a trustee, The mere ing to other parts of the country. fact that mandatory. Powers have to report yearly to the League on the progress of the territories they are administer-
The new decree is clearly de- ing is proof positive that these territories are merely held in signed both to counteract this tendenty and to stimulate ad- trust. A further point which ditional migration. Along with suggests itself is that it is this effort to attract peasant passing strange why Japan alone settlers there is a special effort to of the mandatory Powers should recruit Jewish colonists for the claim that her right to absolute Biro-Bidian Region on the Amur ownership was not denied. On River, which is expected to have what possible ground would an the status of a Jewish national region or republic: Immediately exception have been made in the after the promulgation of the de- case of Japan? The more the cree the Soviet press reported a Japanese contentions are analys-"wave of pledges" among workers ed, the less convincing do they and employees in the Far East to. appear. The issue is, after all, remain at their posts for definite quite a simple one. It can easily torms of years, which may somo be tested by the precise language what resemble a civil mobiliza- tlon. The significance of all this of the Peace Treaty and com- la clear. The Soviet Union Is plementary documenta. Verbal determined to keep a firm hold "understandings" cannot be on the Maritime Province, which taken into account, even assum-now Inserts itself as a wedge into ing that there ever were any. Japan's now continental empire. Japan's mandates differ in no The purpose of the decree is to essential respect from those increase as rapidly as possible the human and material reserves in granted to other Allies. They the immediate rear of the numor- should be respected in the oneous and powerfully equipped For case as in the others.
-Eastern-Army,
homestends. Ever
CLEAR PURPOSE ·
the
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You're not supposed to take them so
We have been informed on the
Although anaesthetics were un- known in those days, the entire operation was carried out Spain- lesaly.
Which-ls all we have to aay on the subject of bowls.
Or, as the Governor of North Carolina unid to the Governor of South Carolina, "It's a long time between rinka!”
HAPPY MEMORIES.
(A writer declares that in many cases people who take a holiday cruise devote the whole time to card-playing.)
That summer cruise that cured.
the "bluca"
And left us fit and trim, Made Ho worth while and
brought a smile
To faces long and grim, Hearts throbbod and swolled: while hands wore held- Whato'or was lost or gained, For, come what might, by day
and night,
"I deal" conditions reigned.
THE CHORUS
IS LADY.
(The chorus girl or to-day le usually a Indy of superior type. Bays & producer,) dec
She's highly educated,
With "people" of high degree, And has probably graduated
Ata univarility;
In every branch of learning
She has always been a "wow, And with ardour keenly burning:
She's in the chorus now.