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NOTES OF THE DAY IS RELIEF FROM RELIEF
HITLER'S PROBLEM
EcoR-
POSSIBLE?
By GEORGE " AUBREY HASTINGS
The Very Idea!
DOGS AND GIRLS
By George
Herr Hitler's accession, to tho Presidency comes at one of the most critical stages in the Nazi regime. Politically, the Fuehrer appears well emically, an orging problem TS UNEMPLOYMENT relief on ralao rellaf funds. New York,T Is reaching a climax. The con- anything like the present scalo which floated a 360,000,000 relief tinuation of ordered economic life to become permanent in American bond lenus last fall, will ask its mounting handsomely but depends on the surmounting of life? Is any relief from roller 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
vers view the situation with alarm Federal Rellef Administrator, be- autumn election.
be put on
HE figures of local resid- ents bitten by dogs are.
persons who.
Huge Vote for Now Car sots
-Record. Six-cylinder...88-horsepower and urge quick and radical leves that the volume will remain Perhaps the best estimate as to can't get a dog of any sort engine... 113-inch wheelbase. monetary reforms which, in their heavy, and that its administration the number of people for whom om- to lay a tooth on them. Speedway
n permanent ployment, temporary or permanent, stamina
opinion, alone are able to, and
avert should
We ourselves, Taust confess threatening doom. The worsening basis. Although he helloves has been provided during the crashproof bodies built like battleships "Mechanica! Brains" provided through- out that make driving almost entirely automatic. "DICTATOR SIX" SEDAN DE LUXE
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GREENE-On August 20, 1934, at Cheung Chow, Max. Valeria Page Greene, aged 68.
BRODIE.-On August 16th, at Wyn- yard, Tasmania, Neil Clark Brodie, aged 69, late of the China Navigation Company Ltd.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, AUG. 20, 1934,
of the currency situation has made the Federal Government. should emergency is approximately 8,000..that so 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 stocks of industry, ones to the states and localities, he butbid to the CWA, now tapered off, whether this is due to any parti exhausted, can
bo refilled. Gold declares that the present relles 3,000,000 through recavory under cular animosity towards us on reserves, with which one could buy | situation is noť temporary, nor can the NRA, and 1,000,000 by the the part of the dogs we cannot foraign Paw materials, arc it any longer be considered anjPWA and the CCC. It is estimated say. Personally Wo are in- longer
available: the only means emergency. For the next decade that about 4,000,000 persons never 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 importa are the proceeds of her dependents on public relief will 000 were unemployables. exports, and these have recently continue large.
Not all unemployed are in need. of dogs available for biting sünk to such a degree that they] In his
Roosevelt said that "rollof working instead of two; some have was and continues to be our first resources to fall back upon and consideration. It calls for large some have not; some have recently expenditures and will continue in had jobs, others have been out of
long time.
are unable to assure the continua-si recent radio address Pre-In some families one person is residents is comparatively small...
tion of vital imports.
雛
CURRENCY STABILITY
However, hope springs eternal in the youthful breast and we shall- qualify before summer in out if we have to buy our own poodle for the purpose and bite him into retalia-
BY PLAY.
COME ALONG, LITTLE DOGGIE! Scene: Suburban
Kowloom.
modified form to do so for a long work matter of fact there are, tion. time to come." So it is that reljef, A6 It is clear that such a situation] **** presents an immediate danger for unemployment compensation and even in prosperous times, often the stability of the currency. The other forms of social Insurance are 1,500,000 or 2,000,000 persons cut policy of the Reichsbank, however, prominent on the agenda of social of work for many causes, including is to remain on gold at all costs questions to be studied during the inability to And just the particular and the offering of marks abroad President's absence from Washing job which the applicant wishes, is being hindered by artificial ton by his Committee on Economic temporary disability, moving from one place to another, changing Security and other experts. means. Thus, there is the rule
If, as Mr. Hopkins recently from one job to another, seasonal Quiet empty street save for Fat that foreign payments must not, on stated, 16,000,000 persons, or one occupations, and shifting from Lady out for stroll and little terrier any particular day, exceed tho eighth of the population, ato ro- rural to urban areas. same day's foreign currency receiving relief in the United States, ceipts. As all dealings la foreign it is clear that provision to meet currency are centralized in the Reichsbank, this institution is well able to curtail transfers abroad. But the consequences of the system of not allowing payments to exceed receipts are plain. Forolgn trade statistics show that Germany, In the past three months, spent about
150,000,000 marka 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 anles,
* *
EQUILIBRIUM
in all
the cost, or reduce it, or spread with the country for a long time to One new problem which will be the burdens in part through some come is the question of the un- form of insurance is one of the employable, as well as the biggest problems confronting the employed. Government to-day.
the
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dog doing a harmless cehnozzle while waiting for girl friend. Fat Lady Bees Dog as Dog sees Fat Idea. Lady and Fat Lady suddenly gets
Fat Lady (takes cautious look un round, no-one is about): Come on, little doggie, come along! (Makes persuasive motions).
(Dog Looks distastefully
new
.. on' a
on the
THE LOCAL MISS.
1
At
Stanley P. Davies. secretary and general director of the Charity Organization Society One of the most serious ques- of New York, recommends a work tions is the method of financing programme for unemployment, not Indy, sniffs and turns away). whatever volume of relief proves emergent in character, but "or Fat Lady (Pulls up skirt and to be permanently needed. The ganized with a view to dealing as displays piece of brown joint): opinion is growing that with the constructively as possible with un-Come along! Nice doggie! 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."
Sees leg and begins to show faint you-go policy instead of long time] At best, as a committee of the Interest). loans which pass the burden on to American Association of Social Fat Lady (advancing towards the next generation.
Workers recently pointed out in a wretched dog, she furtively offers With relief at this transition letter to President Roosevelt, leg): Just one little bite doggie! It is obvious that this system
(Dog yawns and takes cannot be maintained indefinitely stage, it is not amiss to recall that "relief is only, a sorry substitute
look An equilibrium between exports
Federal Government stepped for normal employment.” 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 sniffs, Droops tail
the number of has shown that industry in the and tries to sneak away). PREVENTING. WAR restored. The question is, how-ald only when
ever, whether this equilibrium will needy became so great that the early stages of a pick-up period Fat Lady (grips dog by collar, not can increase production greatly forces his teeth open and tucks R states and localities could World attention has been ut-
not be catublished at such low
But Mr. Hopkins without any immediate substantial fold of her leg inte jaw): Oh you tracted by the recent statement
level of both exports and imports carry the load. that industries using foreign raw now takes the position that an increase in the number employed. little beasti that Nikola Tesla, the noted
The committee also sounded a offcctive, continuing programme materials will be forced to cut
Fat Lady (kicks dog in seat and electrician, is perfecting a death
lown production. Such fears have connot and should not be kept in note of warning about transplant-
falls on aldo walk): Holpl. Help! already been substantiated in one the hands of temporary agencies. Ing needy populations to beam capable of the wholesale
Therefore, he
Indian Constable Industry, namely, the cotton spin- should return as rapidly as pos
says, communities areas,
appears destruction of armies, fleets and ning and weaving industry. Asible to a permanent pubite relief considerable misgiving
"We should look," it said, "with scene followed by curious mob.
Lady Is holsted into rickalia aeroplanes, which he will present recent government decree reduced
working time in this industry to set-up, integrating their emer-programme of wholesale removal whilst dog is seen limping' away to all nations, with a view to
gency relief ádministrations Into of population from one area to an- barking: "Save Life! Save Life? 35 hours weekly. Moreover, ensuring world peace. There Germany will have to import food-tems, which should be modernized familiar. The virtue of the sub-arrests it in the Name of the Law, their regular public welfare sys- other with which they are not Constable rushes up to dog and have been various interpreta-stuffs this year.
and strengthened for the task. sistence homestead movement, as tions us
Lady, still sobbing: Well, I shall to the precise nature
Relief in the United States has we have seen it, is that it has been have my name in the papers, any. RATIONING ?. of the invention, one account say-
been a local, function from the small and experimental enough to
way. It was worth it. ing-that-these death-beams, or
In order to meet the danger of beginning of the nation. Any permit a high degree of handpick-
Constable: Well, I should get "force rays." could be employed
shortage, the government has permanent change to federal resing among people who volunteer started to introduce a strict super-complete break with the past, but recommendation as to stranded
ponsibility not only would be a for the opportunity...Our commended for catching this rabid
dox. around a nation's borders and
vision regime. Commissars flxing.
Dog: This is the toughest joint make invasion an impossibility. imports of and supervising traffic would entail vast, continuing ex-populations would be to go alow,
materials penditures, Whatever the truth of the
important raw
inevitable. political be sure that there is not the pos-I have ever been into, have been appointed. The price of buses, ineffective assistance, and sibility of developing better living matter is, the claims made sound
grain, has been rigorously fixed: in the long run make both public and working conditions almost extravagantly impossible All this, however, in the opinton and private relief less effective and spot."
of the people, is merely
adequate. -something along the lines of a
Did somebody talk about taking # pro- As the Federal Government Clearly, unemployment relief up the cudgels for the modern local liminary to more severe measures cross between the ideas of a Jules
which will follow, resulting in tha seeks to carry out its announced has assumed the proportions of a miss? A cudgel wouldn't be big Verne and the earlier H. G. roappearance of the rationing of plan of returning the relief pro- major problem of public adminis-enough we might miss--but any the way we are always willing to try. Wells. But let it be assumed,
primary necessities as during the ramme to the localitice, it will tration. Public taxation to
and find that in many of them local only adequate
equitable war. The prospect of rationing funds still are inadequate. An method of raising the necessary think about the woman has been Unfortunately what we really for the sake of argument, that
and reducing working hours im adequate relief programme is im- funds and distributing the costs. crossed out so many times that wo the invention turns out to be an mediately raises the spectre of
tax money. The problem calls for A high are inclined to think that if she effective as is predicted, and economic crisis which the Hitler possible without
government seemed to have der Furthermore, even, wealthy states, order of statesmanship and re- hasn't got "1" at least she must that each nation would be able.
initely overcome. After the first like New York and Pennsylvania, sourcefulness, and we must rely be something of a hit. to shelter itself behind an im- palpable but infinitely effective
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 auspicions, and the -conflicting aims which breed war would be where they were before. If they could not find an outlet in armed strife, they would find it in some other kind of strife. There can be economic wars, bloodless but quite as bitter ps those in which armies and navies are used. For the modern world, after all, la still very like a jungle, in which might makes the rules and aclf-interest is the first law. As long as it con- tinues to be that kind of world, there will be International con-
war.
sixteen months of the Nazi regime, are obliged to use their credit to 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 wha most noticeable in the metallurgical,Į automobile, textile and building in- dustries. If, however, production has to be restricted, a paralyzing effect will be folt in all other branches, in keeping with the well- known law that unemployment breeds unemployment.
NO ALTERNATIVE?
It is agreed that only an increase In German exports can avert calamity and this is the immediato concern of the Hitler Government. It is doubtful, however, whether the rumoured plan to sell goods abroad below cost can afford any thing but temporary relief. Much, of course, depends on the type of goods which will be "dumped". it is difficult to appreciate the economics of a system of paying for raw materials with manufac- tured articles priced at figures little above the cost of the raw material: In fact, it is difficult to ROG any way out except a change in the. Rolchiabank policy and the of the mark. The price
a decisivo fac-
flicts of one kind or another. deprecent being reciation]
Making invasion a physical im- possibility would save many lives and prevent much suffering, admittedly, but it would not necessarily bring us any nearer to finding how-to live harmoni- ously in a genuine community of nations,
tor, only equivalent will enable Germany to compete with Britain, the United States or Japan. If. Gormany is not to re- lapse into the atmosphere of hope-) lessness prior to Hitler's assump-| tion of power, there seems alternative.
(Continued on next calamin)
"We really should have a wider acquaintanco. I never know
any of the people these horrible things happen to."
Many of our local male philan- derers have told us that that have. been hit hard, and below, the bolt. To be precise in the region of the pocket.
It has never struck us that way. With reference to Sour-Grapo's letter on the subject, we must assume from its biting tone that he is twice ahy or twice bittan..
Wo like his little bit about "blind love without business-like calculation is the way to the altar." It dooan'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 is a man who is obviously disillusion- ed. 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-. aamental."
To which the local girl was heard to murmur Janguishingly "He's asking too much.
upon traditional American ́ ́ ́ self- reliance as well as relief..
Hope of eventual relief and its. burdone lies both in tightening up the administration of the present relief machinery and in long rango planning, for some form of t employment insurance or reserve which would solve part though not all of the problem. One of the serious · dangers. In connections with the present relief situation la that the vaat
ramified organization necessary to administer it, whether foderal or local, should õling-per-: manontly to the taxpayers: bäcks.