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NOTES OF THE DAY
HITLER'S PROBLEM
AUGUST 20, 1934.
IS RELIEF FROM RELIEF POSSIBLE?
By GEORGE AUBREY HASTINGS
Econ-
T$
The Very Idea!
DOGS AND GIRLS,
By George
Herr Hitler's accession to the Presidency comes at one of the most critical stages in the Nazi regime. Politically, the Fuehrer appears well established. omically, na ever-pressing problem TS UNEMPLOYMENT relief on raise relief funds. New York, is reaching a climax. The con. anything like the present scale which floated a $60,000,000 relief tinuation of ordered economie life to become permanent in American bond issue inst fall, will ask its mounting handsomely but depends on the
surmounting of life? Is any relief from relief citizens to approve another of there are still a number of foreign trade difficulties. Obser- possible? Harry L. Hopkins, 40,000,000 in a referendum at the shamefaced persons who vera view the situation with alarm Federal Rellef Administrator, he autumn election."
HE figures of local resid ents bitten by dogs are
and urge quick and radicatleves that the volumo will remain Perhaps the best estimate na to can't get a dog of any sort monetary reforms which, in their heavy, and that its administration the number of people for whom em- to lay a tooth on them. opinion, alone are able to avert
be on a permanent ploymont, temporary or permanent, threatening doom. The worsening basia. Although he helleves has Lean provided during the
We ourselves, must confess
+
WB are in-
of the currency situation has made the Federal Government should emergency is approximately 8,000,- that ao far we have been immune it uncertain whether the raw gradually return the responsibility 000. Of these, 4,000,000 are attri- from the latest vogue but. material slocks of industry, once to the states and localities, hebuted to the CWA, now tapered off; whether this is due to any parti exhausted, can be refilled. Gold declares that the present relief 3,000,000 through recovery under cular animosity towards us on reserves,. with which one could buy situation is not temporary, nor can the NRA, and 1,000,000 by the the part of the dogs we cannot foreign raw materials, are unit any longer be considered
AnPWA and the CCC. It is estimated say. Personally longer available; the only means emergency. For the next decade that about 1,000,000 persons nover clined to think it is owing to whereby Germany can pay for her or two, he says, the number of were hired, and that some 2,000, shear exhaustion as the number, imports are the proceeds of her dependents on public relief will 000 were unemployables." exports, and theas have recently continue large,
Not all unemployed are in need. of dogs available for biting sunk to such a degree that they In his recent radio address Pre-In some families one person is residents is comparatively small! are unable to assure the continua-sident Roosevelt said that "relief working instead of two; some have. tion of vital imports.
was and continues to be our Brst resources to full back upon and the youthful breast and we shall However, hope springs eternal in consideration. It calls for large some have not; some have recently qualify before summer is out if we expenditures and will continue in had jobs, others have been out of have to buy our own poodie for the modified form to do ao for a long work a long time.
purpose and bito him into retalin- time to come." So it is that relief, As a matter of fact, there are,tion. unemployment compensation and even in prosperous times, often other forms of aucial Insurance are 1,500,000 or 2,000,000 persons out prominent on the agenda of social of work for many causes, including questions to be studied during the inability to find just the particular President's absence from Washing-job which the applicant wishes. ton by his Committee on Economic temporary disability, moving from Security and other experts.
one place to another, changing Scene: Suburban Kowloon.
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CURRENCY STABILITY
of not allowing payments to exceed receipts are plain. Foreign trade statistics show that Germany, in the past three months, spent about 150,000,000 marks more abroad than she was able to sell. If she decides that she will not pay more than she earns it means that she will not, at least for the time being, pay for that part of her purchases which exceeds her sales..
BY PLAY. COME ALONG, LITTLE:
DOGGIE!
stated, 10,000,000 persons, or one occupations, and shifting from Lady out for stroll and little terrier If, as Mr. Hopkins recently from one job to another, seasonal Quiet empty, street save for Fat eighth of the population, are re- rural to urban areas.
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dog doing a harmless schnozzlo while waiting for girl friend. Fat Lady sees Dog as Dog sees Fat
.at
It is clear that such a situation presents an immediate danger for the stability of the currency. The policy of the Reichsbank, however, in to remain on gold at all costs and the offering of marks abroad Is being hindered by artificia means. Thus, there is the rule that foreign payments must not, on any particular day, exceed the same day's foreign currency re- ceipts. As all deniings, in foreign ceiving relief in the United States, currency are centralized in the the cost, or reduce it, or spread with the country for a long time to Idea.
it is clear that provision to, muet One new problem which will be Lady and Fat Lady suddenly gets Reichsbank, this institution is well the burdens in part through some come is the question of the un- able to curtail transfers abroad. form of Insurance is one But the consequences of the system
of the employable, as well as the un-round, no-one is about): Come on, Fat Lady. (takes cautious look biggest problems confronting the employed.
Stanley P.
Davion, Government to day,
secretary and general director o little doggie, come along! (Make the Charity Organization Society
persuasive motions). One of the most serious ques-of New York, recommends a work (Dog Looks distastefully tions is the method of financing programme for unemployment, not lady, anffs and turns away). whatever volume of relief proves emergent in character, but "or- Fat Lady (Pulls up skirt and to be permanently needed. The anized with a view to dealing as displays plece of brown joist): opinion is growing that with the constructively as possible with un-Come along! Nice dogged! Take continuance of abnormal relief employment as one of the outstand-a little bite of auntie's leg! expenditures, federal or local, they ing problems of our modern social (Dog pauses to look at time. should be financed under a pay-as-order."
Seca leg and begins to show faint you-go policy Instead of long time At best, as a committee of the interest). Joans which pass the burden on to American Association of Social the next generation.
Workers, recently pointed out in a wretched dog, she furtively offers Fat Lady (advancing, towards It is obvious that this system
With relief at this transition letter to President Roosevelt, leg): Just one little bito doggie! cannot be maintained indefinitely. stage. It is not amiss to recall that "relief is only a sorry substitute An equilibrium between exports the Federal Government stopped for normal employment."
(Dog. yawne and takes a look Un-round. Nobody there so he ambles and imports will necessarily be into the breach to provide direct fortunately, too, past experience up to leg and snifts. Droops tail restored. The question is, how-ald only when the number of has shown that industry in the and tries to sneak away). ever, whether this equilibrium will needy became so great that, the early stages of a plek-up period not be established at such a low states and localities could
not can Increase production greatly forces his teeth open and tucks a Fat Lady (grips dog by collar, level of both exports and imports carry the load. But Mr. Hopkins without any immediate substantial fold of har les into jaw): Oh you' that industries using foreign raw now takes the position that an increase in the number employed. little beast materials will be forced to cut effe
effective, continuing programme The committee also sounded a down production. Such fears have connot and should not be kept in note of warning about transplant falls on side walk): Help! Help! Fat Lady (kleka dog in seat and already been substantiated in one the hands of temporary agencies. ing needy populations to .new Industry, namely, the cotton spin- Therefore, he says, communities areas.
Indiun Constablo
appears on ning and weaving industry. A should return as rapidly as pos- "Wo should look," it said, "with scene followed by curious mob. recent government decree reduced sible to a permanent public relief considerable misgiving
set-up, integrating
Lady is hoisted into ricksha working time in this industry to
their omer-programme of wholesale removal whilst dog is sean limping away, 36 hours weekly. Moreover,
gency relief administrations into of population from one ares to an barking: Save Life! Save Life!". Germany will have to import food their regular public welfare sys-other with which they are not Constable rushes up to dog and tems, which should be modernized familiar. The virtue of the sub-arrests it in the Name of the Law. stuffs this year.
and strengthened for the task. sistence homestead movement, 48
Relief in the United States has we have seen it, is that it has been have my name in the papers, any- Lady, still sobbing: Well, I shall, been a local function from the small and experimental enough to
EQUILIBRIUM
RATIONING?
adequate. a pre-
inevitable
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In order to meet the danger of beginning of the nation. Any permit a high degree of handpick-way. It was worth it. shortage, the government has permanent change to federal rea- ing among people who volunteer Constable: Well, I should get started to introduce a strict super-ponsibility not only would be a for the opportunity... Our commended for catching this rabid vision regime. Commissura fixing would entail vast, continuing ex-populations would be to go slow,
complete break with the past, but recommendation as to stranded dog. imports of and supervising traffic
Dog: This is the toughest joint in all important raw materiala penditures,
political be sure that there is not the pos-
I have ever been into. have been appointed. The price of abuses, ineffective assistance, and sibility of developing better living grain has been rigorously fixed.in the long run make both public and working conditions on the All this, however;in the opinion and private relief less effective and spot."
THE LOCAL MISS. of the people, is merely
Did somebody talk about taking liminary to more severe measures
Clearly, unemployment relat which will follow, resulting in the seeks to carry out Ita announced has assumed the proportions of miss7 A cudgel wouldn't be big up the cudgels for the modern local. reappearance of the rationing of plan of returning the relief pro- major problem of public adminis-enough--we might miss--but any primary necessities as during the and that in many of them local only adequate and
kramme to the localities, it will tration. Public taxation is the way we are always willing to try. war. The prospect of rationing funds still are inadequate. An method of raising the necessary think about the woman has been
equitablo and reducing working hours in-
Unfortunately what, we really mediately raises the spectre of adequate relief programme is im-, funds and distributing the costs.crossed out so many times. that we economic crisis which the Hitler Furthermore, even wealthy states, order of statesmanship and re-hasn't got "It" at least she must possible without tax money. The problem calls for a high are inclined to think that if she Kavernment seemed to have de
As the Federal Government.
initely overcome. After the first like, New York and Pennsylvania, sourcefulness, and we must rely be something of sixteen months of the Nazi regime, are obliged to use their credit to (Continued on next column)
PREVENTING WAR World attention has been at- tracted by the recent statement that Nikola Tesla, the noted electrician, is perfecting a death beam capable of the wholesale destruction of armies, fleets and aeroplanes, which he will present to all nations, with a view ensuring world pence. There have been various interpreta- tions as to the precise nature of the invention, one account say- ing that these death beams......or.. "force rays," could be employed around a nation's borders and make invasion an impossibility. Whatever the truth of the matter is, the claims made sound almost extravagantly impossible -something along the lines of a cross between the idens of a Jules Verne and the earlier H. G. Wells, But let it be assumed, for the sake of argument, that the invention turns out to be an effective as is predicted, and that cach nation would be able to shelter itself behind an im- palpable but infinitely effective wall, unlike anything ever seen before. It might even be that there would be no more since invasion would be rendered impossible. What then? Would the millenium have arrived? Probably not, for the problem of war is a problem that goes to the very roots of modern society, and it cannot be settled simply by making it impossible for pugnacious peoples to get at each other. The causes of war would remain untouched. The rivalries, the suspicions, and the It is agreed that only an increase conflicting alms which breed war in German exports can. would be where they were before. calamity and this is the immediate If they could not find an outlet concern of the Hitler Government. in armed strife, they would find it is doubtful, however, whether it in some other kind of strife.
the rumoured plan to sell goods There can bb economic wars,
abroad below cost can afford any bloodless but quite as bitter as
thing but temporary relief. Much, those in which armies and pavles
of course, depends on the type of goods which will be "dumped". are used. For the modern It is difficult to appreciate the world, after all, is still very like economics of a system of paying e jungle, in which might makes for raw materials with manufac the rules and self-interest is the tured articles priced at figures first low. As long as it con-
little above the cost of the raw tinues to be that kind of world,"
material. In fact, it is difficult to there will be international con-
see any way out except a change flicts of one kind or another.depreciation of the mark. The In the Reichsbank policy and the Making invasion a physical im- possibility would, save many lives and prevent much suffering, admittedly, but it would not necessarily bring us any nearor to finding how to live harmoni–“ ously in a genuine community.of nations,
war,
the number of unemployed sank from six to two-and-half million, and the index of industrial produc tion rose to 65 to 86 per cent of the production in the standard year 1928. Revival was most noticeable in the metallurgical, automobile, textile and building in- dustries. If, however, production has to be restricted, a paralyzing effect will be felt in all othor branches, in keeping with the well- known law that unemployment breeds unemployment.
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NO ALTERNATIVE ?
avert
price element being a decisive fac will enable Germany to compete only equivalent depreciation with Britain, the United States ог Japan. If Germany, is not to ro- lapse into the atmosphere of hope, Icasness, prior to Hitler's assump tion of power, there scama: “nó alternative.
should have a wider acquaintance, I never know any, of the people those horrible things happen to."
hit, Many of our local male philan- derers have told us that that have been hit hard, and below the belt. To be precise in the region of the pocket.
It has never struck us that way. With reference to Sour-Grape's letter on the subject, we must assume from its biting tone that ho is twice shy or twice bitten.
We like his little bit about "blind love without business-liko calculation la the way to the altar." It doesn't take any business-like calculation to know who finds the halter in one of those blind man's buff games.
"Colibatus" on the other hand le
a man who is obviously disillusion-? e. He says why doesn't the girl 'attempt to do the only thing asked of her when taken out, Le, to be entertaining Instead of merely or namontal."
To which the local girl was heard to murmur. Innguishingly "Ho's asking too much
upon traditional American self- rallance as well as relief,
Hope of oventual rollef and÷ta. burdans Hos both in tighteningk the administration of the present relief machinery and in leng
rango planning for, some form,
of UTI employment fasurance or reserves, which would solve part though not all of the problem. One of the serious, dangers. In connections with the present relief situation I that the vast ramified organisation necessary to administer it, whether federal or local should eling per- manently to the taxpayers' backs.