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NOTES OF THE DAY WILL CUBA GO
EX-KA SER INTERVIEW
Mr. Randolph Churchill's Inter- view at Doorn produced an ex-
pression of views upon world politics generally that was do
WILL CUBA GO RED OR The Very Idea!
REMAIN BLUE?
By A. EDDY.
much in harmony at all pointsONTRARY to the belief that America making it unnecessary Cuba's troubles are purely for the thousands of merry-makera
JEEJEEBHOY GOES ON
Ny Georgo
THE Golden Candar- een", by the author of
with the known policy of the Daily Mail that the critical render pulitical, the land of Columbus has la Florida, to go over fo Havana might be forgiven for wondering simply succumbed to the same to quench their thirst, and the re-previous instalment. how much of it was the ex-Kaiser economic disaster which was re-cent revolutions succeeded in com-
(N.B. Readers who failed to and how much the Daily Mail. sponsible for laying low rubber-pletely scaring away even the low Not that the answer is very producing Malaya, coffee-produc- remaining tourist boots scheduled cadge a paper of yesterday's material or important. Too many ng Egypt and grain-producing to call at Cuban ports in 1933.
issue and thus missed the open- Argentine.
At the time of his inaugurativa subjects were touched upon in n short interview to pormit reasoned argument in justification of any of the assertions made or opinions expressed. The lack of logie reveals itself most clearly in the reference to the decline of
Sterug democracy in Europe. measures are required everywhere the ex-Kaiser is quoted as anying. to combat the pertle of
of a At the time of the writer's first in office, which coincided with the ing of our hire-purchase serial visit to Cuba, not long after the crest of the prosperity wave in should buy one now at the office war, sugar was selling at 26 conts Cuba, General Machado, with a as we can't keep reproducing the U.S.G. per pound and no bootblack distinguished record in the War of
on the streets in Havana would Independence against Spain, and sume bit every day-besides the Hive you a shoeshine for less than who through the sheer force of his author might still be here. 25 cents; labourers cutting sugar personality from a clerk in a coun- However, for the benefit of the cane could be seen wearing ex-try sugar mill became the Presid tensive silk shirts, and there were ent of Cuba, was the most popular above readers we are repeating no rooms in any decent hotel for man in his country. However, as our last paragraph.
with the economie situation
became
archism and bolshevism," which less than $15 U.S.G. per da sub-worse and worse, he had to face
again, doubtless fits in with Daily Maira encouragement Mosleyism in Britain. In
Ard
"But it is with the son of the chairman of directors that we and de- concerned. Palo licate, noble and beautiful in character and feature, Reginald Hiptaola do Jeejeebkoy of the P.IV.D, was, despite his name. every inch a man".
the out meals. Whon sugar
of sequently reached the 28 cents severe criticism on account of costly army and shart, gure, American sugar interests maintaining a
the entire also for constructing expensive it is not the decline of democracy offered to take over
chugar production of Cuba nt 25 public works like the Central that calls for remark but
Cubans Highway (700 miles long, traver- cents a pound, but the activities within democracy that wouldn't accept less than 30 cents, sing the entire length of Cuba are directed towards fuller ex-
It was during those years of without a single level crossing and pression of the idea! of gevern- frenzy that sumptuous marble coating 200 million dollars gold) ment by the people for the people palaces and luxurious hotels were and the Capital (the nearest rival
calling for stern measures
constructed and public works of of Taj Mahal and costing 20 mil (What is Jeejcobloy going to do in suppression.
national importance instituted. lion dollars gold) and the Machado this second instalment of a thrilling Notwithstanding the fact that be- Model Village and Industrial narrative? Goodness knows he didn't tween 1920 and 1930 Havana was School, which are undoubtedly the do much yesterday but then what could the most expensive city in the most outatanding achievements
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of
time.
friend this question and send us the
Even now she was awaiting his eaming, impatiently puffing great
NEW WAY OF THINKING
Criticism of the ex-Kaiser's world, in 1929 over 120,000 Amori-daring the 35 years of national you do in half a column? Ask your opinions that pursues the path can tourists visited "the most fe of Cuba. Had Machado re- suggested above would doubtless beautiful innd human eyes have tired at the end of his first term).replies to-morrow. If we don't use be characterised in some quarters ever seen", to quote Columbus, the he would have gone down in his-them remember we're running thlo as outrageously radical. In actual tourist industry thus supplanting tory as one of the greatest Presid-serial, not you. Now read on).
of Cubn. in the tobacco and becoming the largest ents
However, by fact, it is mill comment
SECOND INSTALMENT. topsy-turvey world of to-day. For source of national revenue after arbitrarily changing the Constitu
tion and by appolating himself for every other inch a man. instance, what can be the reaction sugar. of the ordinary
United States duty on Cuban a second term against the will of where man
What more naturnt than that he interest in polities is negligible, to sugar, plus world market condi- the entire nation (when he pro- a cold unvarnished statement in tians, has sent the price of this nounced the historical phrase: should fall in love with Madge a stock market expert's review of product from 28 cents to less than "I cannot be ousted with scraps of whose coarser and more manly TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1934.
Washington developmenta that one cent a pound at which figure paper" (hallot), he became the features appealed to his sense of "implications in the programme of was selling in 1981 when the object of the greatest national humour? social legislation for the
next writer visited Cuba for the second hatred and the scapegoat for the THE FIGHT AGAINST year Indicate a policy of the ion that Cuba is the largest sugar-
If we take into considera-catastrophe of Cuba. TUBERCULOSIS
maintenance of the capitalistic system." The phrase, contained producing country in the world A Broken Spring in Swan, Culbertson and Fritz'a (four million tons a year followed Tuberculosis, one of the worst report from Washington yester.be readily realized what the con-trated like a mechanism with
by Java with two millions), it will And there is Cubu to-day, pros- scourges to afflict mankind, is
was not lay, being slowly but surely over-matter
The summation of a contract at 25 broken spring, and Havana, once come in countries which have render feels that had the Roosevelt centa a pound would have meant the Paris of the tropics and the in the first instalment of a set themselves seriously to the trend been different, the fact for Cuba in addition to the prob- gayest and most luxurious city in task of wiping it out. For would have been recorded in the tax on her sugar which is one of tourists alike. Gone are the days ability of keeping away the U.S., America, deserted by natives and twenty years. the National same matter-of-fact fashion,
the Association for the Prevention nothing warranting excitement of plight of Cuba on one hand and of in the world, without flies and principal causes of the present when Havana was the cleanest city of Tuberculosis has been labour-
alarm. As expressed, il is
the prosperity of the Philippine mosquitoes. Every accond bulld startlingly significant commentary sugar growers on the other. (In- ing in the centre of the town is world to-day. upon a new way of thinking in the cidentally it is an indication of now to let or for ante, and the
what may happen to the Philip Municipality has other
things pine sugar industry once those worry about besides keeping alive Islands gain complete inilepend- such an expensive sanitary depart- anco).
ment. Her tourist trade is finish- ed for the time being, and the few remaining hotels open for business, are empty. Her lúxurious Casino,
submitted
for congratulation.
MOSLEY BULLIES
༥ཀ
Britain will not put up with much more hanky-puky from the Mosleyiten. Sir John
Complete Stagnation
to
clouds of smoke from the Isla do
retrieved from wherever she threw Perfectos cheroot which she had
thrilling narrative.
Brushing a hand across her stubbly chin she gazed moodily through the Peak into the near future. What she saw afforded her Httle satisfaction apparent- ly for suddenly she grunted
spat loudly and
the verandah thereby causing the amah to prick herself soverely with her chopsticks.
over
ing in England with this end in view, and it has just reported that the mortality from all forms of this insidious disease has fallen by more than forty per cent, during that period. What is more, the death-rate therefrom last year was the lowest ever recorded. Best of the Home Secretary, might have In spite of the superhuman more sumptuous than that of that she was every inch a man too.. all, final triumph is believed to expressed himself a little more efforts of Dr. Tirso Mesa, then Monte Carlo, and her racecourse, be possible. Facts like these clearly, but, reduced to simple Mayor of Havana, and the head one of the most beautifully laid out should encourage health authori- terms, his statement of policy of the Cuban National Tourist tropical tracks in the world, and had spent the day shopping and ties everywhere to redouble gave assurance that the bullying Commission, to increase the nu-at one time patronized by more was still in her rough attire-she their efforts in waging
war tactles of the Black Shirts will tional revenue by attracting more millionaires than any other, with against the scourge. Here
deaths
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Gilmour,
It might almost be said of Madge
Hitching up her trousers-she
standing in the fields and two-ing on the high seas of world de- from his intimate pocket and had a thirds of the hotels had closed premion, aggravated by revolu-peep at himself. › down, which fact, incidentally, is tionary struggles for power. responsible for my writing these Revolutions in Latin America (To be continued. Don't ceasc lines to-day in Hongkong. On are usually directed against per- to buy the Telegraph, folks! We (Continued on Page 9.)
haven't near finished yet. What will Reginald do when he sees him- self In the inirror? What would. you do? That is the human pro blem that will keep us up to-night elapping out another column of Hterary hogawash until WO can bring Madge and Reg face to face. What a meeting! See to-morrow's semi-final instalment).'
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not be tolerated. If Sir Oswald American tourists, only 38,000 the possible exception of Aguas passed her other hand across the in Hongkong, an average Mosley calls a public meeting and thirsty Americans responded to calientes on the Mexican border, name chin and scowling savagely to gain a hearing, he must the call of cold beer in 1931 atay-have been, closed for over two best down, to enter the bungalow of fully fifty
put up with it. Even if the inter-ing for an average of two and to less than one-fourth in
and her commerce
has and make herself presentabla per week is recorded from this rupters exceed ordinary bounds, it half days as against eight days in disease, and the rate would be is not within the competence of a 1929 and spending less than one four years.
against Jeejecbhoy's arrival. higher still but for the fact that private organisation to take the tenth of the average amount loft There are three ronds to salva- Meanwhile Reginald, clad in sufferers in the last stages of law into its own hands and employ behind by tourists in 1929, Hotel tion (1) a war which would in- beautiful
KOWN of diaphanous the discove often leave the hired bullies and violence to sup rooms were selling from $1.50 up, crease the price of sugar, (2) a Colony to die In their native press the outbreak. Ten persona labourers cutting sugar cane were custom union with the United material, was' strolling along the districts. The problem locally were treated in hospital after ad- working without wages, for food States, and (3) settling down to Praya whistling softly to the fish is admittedly
more adjust the national life to the new as they came to the surface to take ventures within the building at only, and there were no one of great Olympia. It speaks for itaclf
bootblacks left on the streets of circumstances. The third alternan occasional broath. Now and difficulty. There is no doubting
Havana. By 1932, the greater ative in the most difficult one to then he took a little make-up bo the fact, to which His Ex-
portion of sugar cane was left face, and at present Cuba is drift- cellency the Governor made re- MODERN LATIN cent reference, that the ques- tion is largely an economic one, Always enamoured of Latin, with poverty as one of under- educated circles in England are lying causes. Equally true is digesting with interest the new the statement made at the same crop of modern Latin" words put top of all this came Repeal in time by Sir William Peel that it out by the "Societas Latinas" of is almost impossible to
Munich, the society of scholars get Oriental tubercular patients to ancient tongue alive for modern founded not long ago to keep that enter sanatoria until the disease international use. The new crop is advanced and the chances of included: Crossword puzzles recovery are very slight. Nono crucigramma), Bobbed hair the less, the obligation still (complus
puerilis.) Lipstick rests on the Government to do (stilus fucana), London Editorial all within its power both to re- (caput primarium), Skiing (solca move the principal contributory nivalis),
of BIBA
exchange causes and to provide adequate (yagrapha). The Society's re- measures for the treatment of technicians suggesting words and contains articles by sufferers, One long overdue phrases which will keep Latin step in the latter connection is abreast of the times in all the being taken by the provision of sciences and a useful medium for separate wards in hospitals for International conversations. All} tubercular patients. But if any this is quite in the English key, real impression is to be made on where the teaching of Latin is, the prevalence of the disease in many schools, highly modern. locally and if the terribly high English schoolboys, aged ten, are mortality rate is to be reduced, now busy translating into Latin, far more comprehensive mea-wer Boys of the Westminster
"Who's Afraid of the
Bad sures will need to be taken. School give each year an original Standards of living will have to play in Latine which contains so be raised, much more intensive many amuning Jokes and bits of hygienic propaganda will have modern slang that The Times to be undertaken, and, despite prints it in full for the benefit of the reluctance of sufferers to readers. "Crucigramma" is now a undergo treatment, provision "household word" in thousands of will have to be made for the British homos.
one
or
more establish-
view
monts devoted wholly to of the people, and this, together combatting the diacase. Ex-with the spread of hygienic perience in England has shown ideas, has greatly helped in gain- that people have to be educateding maater over the dread dis up to the desirability of early ensc. Admittedly, conditions in treatment, and the process is the East are not those which inevitably a slow one. Yet by prevail in England, but the steady, unremitting application same basic methods of preven it has been found possible to tion and cure apply in the one instil right ideas into the minds case an in the other.
"How old do you think she really Is?"
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CATS' LESSON.
You big Tom Cat What alls you that, each quiet night, becomes affright, before your walls? What'
· dreadful emotion causes commotion as the moon palca?
Don't tell us that you've caught rat! Such innocent joy, you daily do ploy, without acrimony; some new, element, has found a free vent, in dreadful harmony !
But though our sleep is broken, Bo's yours. The same token, is good for us both. And perhaps the pleasure, in which you spend your leisure, might not find us loth
So stick to your tiles; we have different styles, that's all there la
take some to it. But
advice, | though courling is nico, don't over-
do It!
Just watch your carriage,, or you'll have A mis-marriage, By George how we know it. But then you can't hear us, you big ignorn- mus, we might as well stow it.
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