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TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY REACH-ME-DOWN The Very Idea!
N.R.A. INDICTED
The Darrow Board's indictment of N.R.A. is severe, but not al- together unexpected. The institu tion of the inquiry was in itself illustrativo of a suspicion that all was not exactly as it should be
•HOUSES
By R. J. CRUIKSHANK
and was designed to be. And the mass production of cheap, cities. Many smaller communities
ABOUT THE TOWN
By George
LETTER FROM CORRESPONDENT.
"Sir, Boing myself a constant,
result is dumning. Briefly, the conclusion is reached that NRA Interesting experiments sponsored and ramshackle air, as though (Note-We are proof against flat- houses is one of the most have a peculiarly hasty, sketchy reader of your valuable paper la repressive of the little of business, that the new regimenta-by Mr. Roosevelt's Administration. they had not yet decided to be-tery of this nature now, as statis tlon is no more able to reconcile The Government proposes to give come permanent settlements. private profit with public welfare willing to build homes for the almost Egyptian solidity of some finanelal backing to firms who are
This is in odd contrast to the show that everybody who is than the old hit-or-mias system,
anybody reads the Telegraph) that N.R.A. has, in fact, been ex- people in the same swift, whole of the big cities. The rebuilding! do not doubt
the ploited for the special interests of sale, standardised way that Mr. of the small towns is one of the least that you will decline me High Finance and the great mon- extend credits, and share the it presupposes a more settled way quest should have been refused wo Ford turns out care. They will problems of America's future, but little space (Note Why this re- opolistic trusts. There was A change for N.R.A. to exercise con-
ultimate risk.
of life. Dilapidated trol of industry for the general and slum shanties will be replaced duction is likely to commend itself to anyone in the Colony, especial.
framo structures This experiment in mass pro
are enquiring) in order to appeal welfare as long as the disciples of rugged individualism, as another as match-boxes, A poet stimulus it will give to a number to take notice of my article and by trim little homes as like one to the country because of the ly the ofheial staffs of the theatres like to call it, were prepared to and an artist might shudder at of trades. There has long been Aght it. As 8000 NO GEAR-CHANGE TROUBLES
up powerful
this prospect. Described in the feeling that the quickest way to
sec that nothing of this kind will Vauxhall Super Brucht-Mesh defies you to. wake had gear change. No double dogan to reveal willingness to the nightmare horror of one of the exploitation of some new form italics are ours).
| financial and industrial groups be barest terms, it has something of overcome the depression would be ever happen again. (Note-the clutching, he feeling for gears—nothing new operate-in to learn. with. Vanhall Brochro, Mesh,
short, to whether you moro the gear lever quickly or
N.R.A. for their own ends the minor imitators of Wells and some quarters there is a hops that exploit those geometrical Utopias that of large scale manufacture, in slowly, you are all certain of a perfect. little man began to silent change. That's why it la enllesă Juper
be squeezed Bellamy used to invent. To the this housing scheme may be the dietingu is from other Synchro-Mesh
alarmed imagination, these mass long-awaited harbinger of better Ask for a demonstration-it al
production houses may seem to times. the wheel and try for yourself.
lengthen in dreary vistas of prison cells.
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WIVES WITH A VENGEANCE.
GEN. JOHNSON'S REPLY
"Willingly they would lend their-- There will be a steady campaign wives to each other but when the It is futile for General Johnson
of propaganda to make the public white men entered their paradise. The reality will probably not be eager to modernise its homes.the Eskimo heart cried out for to rage about the Board's qualif- as dreadful sa that. In the first The appeal to patriotism and pro- cations, to accuse it of being in-place, there is an immenso need gress and plumbing will be all vengeance
Vengeance that merely because it has produced an the rehabilitation of house pro- fully grafted, it is certain to de- ley wilderness could prevent" unfavourable report. That does porty. The traveller through this velop in complexity. From simple, citation not help the General's case a bit country carries away with him and cheap, ready-made houses we shall advertising "Eskimo." The National Recovery Review Impression of myriads of frame pass to elaborate essays in domes- Beard was established by Presid houses, brown, blue, green ent Roosevelt as an official body white, stretching
and tic modernity.
We wonder if tho iden intended to study the workings of N.R.A. Since the depression, there has States constantly fluctuates be- Eskimo-land is a paradise; (b)
into influity. Public taste In the United to with special reference to its effect been a lag both in new builting tween the standardised and the that borrowed wives make a par- be conveyed 18-(3) that upon small enterprises. It is and repairs. presumed that Mr. Darrow and his
individual. A man will veer! colleagues were chosen as the men villas of England, the frame formity to
Lacking the solidity of the brick sharply from a passion of con- adise; (c) that it is paradise to be most likely to provide the Presid- houses of America have quickly One day he must have the counter- lending your wife is one way of a passion of dissent. able to lend your wife;.(d) that TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1934.
ential with an impartial report shown the effects of neglect and part of his neighbours goods, the gotting your gengeance "a vonge- General Johnson's complaint, in poverty. Many of them are peel-next everything must be different. ance that neither chains nor ter- the circumstances, suggests one ing. mottled, of two things, either that he' Is For the observer It la a question weather-battered. THE BULGARIAN
interpreting the New Deal in auf whether one prefers picturesque
LABOUR SAVING DEVICES. rors of the ley wilderness" could COUP
manner differing from that of the shabbiness or standardised rent cently exhibited by the Westing
The "House of To-morrow," re- surpass. President, or that the people of the ness. Europe and the world at large United States have been misled is not so much one of aesthetics future developments, which will To the tenant the problem house Company, gives a hint of have received the news of the regarding the objective of the as of comfort and well-being, dramatic coup in Bulgaria, re- sulting in the establishment of
military dictatorship, with mixed feelings. At the moment,
Hongkong Telegraph.
New Deal.
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EASY TO BUILD.
BY A DIARIST.
BY WATER BUG. Then, again, attempts will be come when people have more cash
During the weekend the summer In their pockets. This home le THE LITTLE FELLOW
nade to prevent the mass produc-a marvel of electrical devices for invasion of our precincts by the tion houses from looking alike.aving labour. There are nineteen "fat at forty" and his wife, began There will be a standardisation of motors to serve the housewife, and in earnest. During the last one The main feature of the Darrow basic parts, such as floors, win it is claimed that it would take or two weeks a few of them came it is not possible to assess tho Report is its. demand for fair play dows, plumbing, but relief will be 864 human servants to developments at their precise for the smaller.enterprises, it is provided by variety in colouring equivalent amount of work. do the significance, due in large meas- recall General Johnson's statement estimated that the cost of a five
down to the sen In elips and rain- interesting, in this connection, to and architectural styles. it. is
The laundry is run without hu- coats but the weather helped us ure to the intrigue, both internal of May 12, when he declared the room ready-made house will be an hands. Doors open and close considerably in keeping the water and in regard to foreign align-virtual abandonment of the "little from three thousand to five thour autematically. The lighting ments, associated with the up-fellows" under the N.R.A., adding sand dollars (from afx hundred to colours periodically.
is pretty clear, without shadows, and changes its heaval,
One thing is clear, that he was not inclined to "fool one thousand pounds). By Ameriburglar alarm is touched, every one species knew just what he
When
But Saturday was a day of tor- namely, that the movement with them any longer,"
can standards, this is remarkably
ror. Ono feels sure that if the smacks of the Nazi order, in
cheap.
room is lighted up, and the front which there is to be no room ROOSEVELT POLICY
of the house is swept by light. looked like swimming-imitating a There is a radio device on the frustrated stariish suffering from whatever for freedom or thought, speech or written word. Mr. Roosevelt will accept the John their old homes as part payment throwing them open when the car
It is impossible to believe that holders will be able to "trade in" which controls the garage doors, fine his activities to the land.
It is suggested that house-dashboard of the householder's car acute indigestion-ho would can- All political parties are being son Interpretation of the Report for new ones just as they exchange approaches. suppressed, Parliament is being and reject it as
'The only break in the day was replaced by a Government-nom-March fust, analysing the N.R.A., turers' association is preparing room in the house to any other I made this known to her she was
valueless. In automobiles. One big manufac
when I discovered an old lady It is possible to talk from any with a hole in her contume. When inated Chamber, and short work he declared: "The Code author-large scale fabrication of wood room-surely a dangerous opening so embarrassed that she crawled is evidently to be made of any itles are the keepers of their in-houses of a one-storey type. The to give a professional borel all the way up the beach on her elements whose ideas run con establish every safeguard against fitted together in fourteen days. violet lamps. The house manu-
dustrial-brothers-and-they must various sections can be made and There are trary to those of the new dic- erasing the small-operater from One virtue urged on their behalf factures Its own weather. Elabor
infra-red and' ultra- back. tatorship. The hint that the so- the scene. The code should re- is that they can be quickly taken ate conditioning devices, based on called Macedonian terrorist or- ganisation is to be suppressed by the little fellow is beluged elsewhere.
verse competitive methods where-apart, like dolls' houses, and erect-air ducts in the cellar, provide au may be taken as an indication squeezed out." This is precisely
even temperature, summer and that a reign of terror may be what, the Darrow Report charges, raised against these "reach-me-
The objections that would be winter.
During the holidays I debated` with two or three modern thinkers There are no fewer than seven the nature of the Ideal Anglo- cordance with Nazi traditions corporations have used the codes forthcoming on this side of the wave receiver, which will supply that is, the outrage which, with an al-Saxon Outrage (non-violent)- for subjugating political oppon- to put the small enterprises as Atlantic. One can readily imagine the listener with music froin some cut involving physical gain or loss ents. In these ways is the "Iron greater disadvantage. Their very! Dean Inge denouncing this new point of the globe or other at any of life, would stir the Colony most Fist" to be applied. The politicalze has always given them a con- bungalold eruption," but it must, given time. The price of install swiftly to shame and noble anger. al and moral decomposition cited aiderable leeway over the small be remembered that while America ing these Robot servants is twelve as necessitating the establish-n, through the method of mon-
has a number of pretty villages thousand dollars. opolistic purchases and
We came to the conclusion (it ment of a dictatorship may well Code regulations have made things ago philosophically accepted the electrical equipments will be com- Great Bear swinging and burning and much lovely scenery, it long be nothing more than a disin- more dieult for the little fellow weirdest architectural improvisa- men in the American home in five low over a tumbling sea) that the The engineers claim that these being thon very late and the clination to bow the knee to without any compensating advan- tions and extravaganzas as part of or ten reaction. The likely political tages.
the price exacted for the rapid measure of prosperity returns, that this:
Years' time. If
a real Ideal Anglo-Saxon Outrage 18 effects on Europe are of
development of now .towns equal Importance. In this con-
and is quite possible. nection it is a strange twist of
If allegiance to the Code had circumstance which seems to bring this new Nazi dictatorship been honestly accepted by the big corporations, in spirit as well as more into alignment with France in letter, the indictment of Mr. than with Germany or Italy. Darrow and his colleagues would Such is the expected upshot of have had less force. But it is well Bulgaria now turning towards a known that in many of the great policy of friendship and co- Industries, nominal increases in operation with Yugo-Slavia, wages have been accompanied by Yet those who have been watch-demotions in the status of workers, ing events in the Balkans latter-placing them in a worse position ly will not be altogether sur receiving G6 cents an hour have than before. Machinists who were prised at the suggested rappro-been reduced to the official rank chement between the Bulgars of inbourers, paid 45 cents an hour, and the Yugo-Slave, for it was which included the code wage in not long ago that the two coun- crcase, and given exactly the same tries concluded a commercial work to do.
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treaty. This followed efforts by
CODE "HONESTY''
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the Little Entento to link up all | SOMETHING TO BE SAVED the Balkan States, in which
King Alexander of Yugo-Slavin that N.R.A. has failed completely It would not be fair to deduce was given the task of wooing and utterly. Distorted and per- Bulgaria. Italy, however, is vorted by pronteers, it still con- obviously upset at the latest de- tains within its structure much velopments, for it was believed that can be used to economic ad- that the ties between Rome and vantage. But pitfalls that should Sofia had been greatly streng- have been obvious have not been thoned when King Boris was avoided: N.R.A. has fallen into wed to an Italian Princess. nearly every possible error open What the final outcome of the Big Business interests to form to it, notably in permitting the Bulgarian coup will be, it is im- their own boards of control possible to say. But in view of la possible, as suggested, that Mr. the interests bf certain Powera Darrow may be sent in the preservation of specific Washington "in disgrace, but spheres of influence in the Balk- there are facts behind his report ans, any marked change in that cannot be disregarded. Ile national policies in this restless will be vindicated ultimately, region cannot be dismissed as of forme, or by the collapse of the either by the Initiation of re small account;
code structure,
It
from
"Darling, these are my parents. You're going to love them."
"During the most solemn mo- ment of a Test match, a bishop sitting in the Members' Enclosure at Lord's makes a deliberately frivolous reference to one of the joken in the National Comte Wockly."
We also decided the Ideal Anglo- Saxon Denth, which is to be struck on the head by a baronet with n bat signed by Hobba.
CRISIS IN BOOKSY LAND.
The alightly hysterical book- critic who wrote, or screamed, the other day-
"Everyone will hail the arrival of a new and far bigger · Ethel Mannin"
-is doubtless by now feeling n hot and embarrassed as the rest of us. Mrs. Effort, general organiser of Kindness Week (1934), sald yesterday:
"Miss Mannin will have the sympathy of everyone who prefers her as she is now, petite and scorn ful of men. To want her bigger ia absurd. We have plenty of anormous girls in the country al- ready who could not expose the con- temptible goings-on of men to savo their lives.
"We are
Baking everybody to be specially charming to Misa fan- sin during our forthcoming Kind ness Wook."
Meanwhile
tho press have promised to start a fund to save Mina Mannin' for the nation."