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PILSUDSKI'S SUCCESSOR
JUNE 6, 1935.
ROOSEVELT IN THE
SHADOWS
By R. J. CRUIKSHANK
FR. ROOSEVELT is in danger wives, and the boycott of butchere
The Very Idea!
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A new name is echoing In the council halls of Europe, a new per- оп the appeared sonality has troubled, horizon of world affairs, Edward Rydz-Smigly, one of the MR. of becoming the Forgotten in Los Angeles led to street fight youngest generals in the Polish Army, has succeeded to the style Man of America. This country is ing in that city. The steady
of the squeeze is brought home to one
Plese get me nother job. I by which the late Marshal Pil-probably the most fliekle sudski, Dictator of Poland, was great democracies. Public opinion much simple homely depositions as known to his people. He is the here is na changeful as the sea this: Portly Mr. A. smilingly says, don't like monkying with finger A man who is "I used to take two eggs for break-bowls. Im use to working for the off Long Island. new Inspector-General of
one minute fast under Hoover; under Roosevelt people as washes theirselves befor Polish Army an office which car sailing in sunshine- ries with it almost unlimited power Ands himself in danger of capsizing take one." The coat of living is they come to the table.
A few weeks bound to mount higher as a result in that race of warrior people in a squall the next. What manner of man is this who ago it was taken for granted that of the appalling drought in the To-day by the Federal Government (and has sprung into such prominence Mr. Roosevelt would be re-elected West, the processing taxes inid on overnight? Fair, tall, and clean overwhelmingly next year. shaven, he is a uplendid type of the the gossip in Washington is that passed on to the consumer), the modern soldier. full of courage; he may be beaten. One even hears sales taxes imposed by such muni- his breast a blaze of colour ribbons quoted in the political clubs a pre-cipalities na New York, and the telis that, but he realises that to-diction that the President will run general inflationary policy of the
third in a contest with Senator Government. day there is more in soldiering than wearing gorgeous uniforirs Arthur Vandenberg. Republican, and facing death mlinchingly on the battlefield. He has been hailed no the new Strong Man of Poland. Well, perhaps he may prove even that; but he would be among the first to deny that he or anyone else could All the place of the dead mar- shai. Josef Pilsudski was a man apart, the idol of his race: he was
Poland.
ON LAP OF GODS
and
In his talks with
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in Amerien
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I don't like munkying with
finger bowls.
WOULD A SWORD DO? Mr. Norman Foster Hollywood
Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, Senator Huey Long, In- dependent. That is fantastic, but of Princeton, one of the grentest. hRs believes that the current ving that such a hope can be cherished financial experts in this country. shows how oddly the scene
It does not need a changed. The chances are that if costs may be expected eventually the election took place to-morrow to double. the President would squeeze through political genius to see that the high in a three-cornered fight, but his cost of living will be made a paru- by the Opposition margin might well be as narrow as mount issue Wilson's in 1916 when California's parties in the election of 1936. The bearts of wealthy Republicans 16 votes decided the ispuc
will be bleeding for "the little fellow ground between the upper of Not since the golden ge
stone of the N.R.A, and the nether Re I known my Coolidge have publican friends to be so cock-a-stone of the Agricultural Adjust- The fact It is true that General Rydz-hoop. Around Christmas the Re-ment Administration. Smigly has succeeded to the more publican nomination for the Pre that these distinguished friends of important of the two offices thesidency was thought so worthless the little fellow did nothing for
Dear Mr. Foster, marshal held, that of Inspector; that cynical members of the party him during their twelve years of
Would you send me a photo General of the Army, but over and were in favour of bestowing it on power will not make their sabs of any less heartrending. At above him stands the new Polish Mr. loover as a dunet's cap, but pity Constitution, under which, by de- now every ambitious man in the the same time, the reckless dema of yourself, also one of these free Kogue, Huey Long. will exploitances which I hear you are giving cres of the President, he was ap- Opposition is scrambling to get it discontent over the rising cost of away. Hoover himself hus Iven pointed to offer. What he takes Mr.
Yours truly. Tessie M of that appointment is n the knees surveying the political landscape of living to the fullest extent. As the of the gals. This it is true to the
Mr. Faster was design- constry with characteristic fascinating story of the Roosevelt
Administration unfolds itself, one. NOTE: Bay: now that Pilsudski is gone ploding thoroughness during he begins to see that the prime errorated by the Movie Magazines as a THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1935. there is no more pupular man in past few years.
the whole of Poland. For niany his friends in New York, the dis-of the President was to seek to "free lance player."
conciliate the conservative element years he has shared with his friend tinguished pilgrim
SOME HELP! in the community, while still wear- THE DEMAND FOR and mentor, the dead marshal, the them that he has discovered ing the plumes of the Knight
affection of the Polish people- i revolution.
starting Errant of the Forgotten Man. His Edith M. Stern, Author LOWER RATES here, there, and everywhere in from the grass-ruots," a conserva-lirtation with these groups has New York City
Poland streets have been namedtive revolution in favour of the brought him nothing. The censer Dear Mrs. Stern:
1 borrowed your book "Men General sympathy will be felt after him. For the rest General restoration of old-fashioned Amerivative elements in American bust- with the objective which
the Rydz-Smigly was born in 1886 and canism whatever that may be ness and social life are irreconcil- Are Clumsy Lovers" from the
early came under the inthence of and an end to radical experiments,able.
The things I have heard said Public Library and enjoyed it so Chinese Chamber of Commerce the Polish Nationalist movement. I have observed at all intimate about Mr. Roosevelt in the clubs much that I kept it out for several.
weeks and lent it to six of my has in view in deciding to make He did not start life as a soldier, Republican dinner parties or recep-and socially influential houses
friends, but as an art student. In 1914 he tions lately that the conversation New York have equalled in venom
Do let me know when your next representations to the Govern- was a member of the Polish Legion has inevitably yeered to the selec- the things that were said of Mr.
book cames out so I can help you ment for a reduction in the exist-serving directly under Pilsudski.tion of a candidate who will be Lloyd George
who quickly singled him out. ns pledged to
lower tariffs, to the days. These people have forgotten again.
Sincerely yours, |ing standard of assessment rate. In soldier of great promise, As abolition of N.R.A. and the Agri that Mr. Roosevelt by his courage.
Mra, Sara G....... usual the marshal chose wisely; cultural Adjustment Administra-cheerfulness and genius for action At the same time, it will, we
the ex-art student became his right-tion, and the liquidation of the new saved them from ruin two brief imagine, require something more hand man, alnust his other self. monopolies. In view of the Re-years ago. Company dividends are NOT SO SIMPLE
When the Germans imprisoned him publican record the profession of soaring. The threat has passed. American Lady Corset Company than a mére request to induce it was Rydz-Smigly whe carried on faith in low tariffs is a miracle 38 it is the fashion now to pretend New York City the authorities to make the con- | his work. He brought into being startling as air. Stanley Baldwin's that there never was any danger in Gentlemen: cession asked for. The case for the secret Polish Military Organ-conversion to Free Trade would be 1932, that the closing of the banks
What kind of corset have was a stunt, though on whose part you that I can wear? I have no rate reduction, if it is to make isation, fashioning such an army
that when Pilsudski regained his The hopes of a Republican victory it is not explained.
gure and want to improve it. any impression on the Govern-freedon; he had ready to his hand are based on two premises: Brst,
Yours truly, ment, will have to be presented an
with which he that the country is scared by the The cant of the moment is that
Anne S--. in such a manner as to show the host that grew out of Rydz-Mr. Bousevelt in the hope of restor-Man of the Sea who is preventing fashioned modern Poland. It was bold experiments introduced by America must rid itself of the Old
WHAT SIZE COLLAR? that it is a practical proposition. Smigly's embryo army that flung ing recovery, and secondly that the return of prosperity and rob CO., LTD. In other words, it will be for bark the Bolshevik hardes from the fusion of the followers of Senator bing the nation of its precious U. S. Treasury
Father Coughlin will liberties. In attempting the hope- Washington, D. C. those making the representa-gates of Warsaw and established Long and tions to indicate how the demandthe free republic of the Polish po draw at least five million votes less task of winning the favour of Dear Treasury:
ple. From that day Pilsudski was away from the President at the these people Mr. Roosevelt has for- I want to buy a Liberty can be met without seriously the master of his intion's destiny election. To an impartial observer felted the allegiance of many of Bond for my husband's birthday. interfering with the balancing and his lieutenant was General it would seem, however, that what his Liberal followers. He has tried What size should I get him? He not the circus fent of riding two horses is 44 years old, and has blonde of the Colony's Budget. It was Rydz-Smigly. Through the years is ruining Mr. Roosevelt is
that have intervened marshal and his abandonment of American in-fat once and is in danger of a spill. hair.
ing that, by reason of
the perfect unison; the idens of the
of following * comes much closer to the heart and paying the price
economic nationalism. decline in property values, lead-one have been the law of the other tomadh of the average man-the policy of
ME KIND-HEARTED high cust of living. The necessities le has come near running the
SIAMESE BOY ing to fewer transactions in land
of life have been steadily rising cotton trade, which is the breath
Siam. and property, the
Bangkok, Food prices have advanced at least is in a fair way to destroying the Miss Sylvia Sidney, revenue in stamp duties has
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your acting and your beauty aro Interested to those who have seen you; even I. But what I have seen was your lustre moving in the screen. Please send to me kind- hearted Siamese boy a variety of photo of you. And, now, I en- closed a little sum of thirty cents; thirty-only, which I could bring out from my pocket: trust in your kindness that Post Office will not be so far from your home,
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Colony's who argued that Government daring the period of the New Deal. of life of the Southern States, and shown a falling off; and to this servants and others occupying 40 per cent, during the past two wheat markets of the West; while Paramount Studios,
many foodstuffs Posthis 'monetary experiments Are Hollywood, California fact has to be added another, rent-free houses were not con-years, and
share. tributing their
The half as much again as they did a causing increasing uneasiness with Dear Miss Sidney:
a consequent loss of confidence to
I have received your card namely, that revenue in other
Government, however, adhered Last month restaurant prices in trade. And, beyond everything, this morning with very much de- departments has also shown to its decision, although Sir New York were raised ten per cent.looms the ominous shadow of ten lightful feelings. Dear, because tendency to drop. In these cir- William Peel put forward a pro-There have been strikes of house. Imillion anemployed. cumstances, the petitioners will have to show how the Governosal for cutting down expendi- ture by paying Government ment can face a further loss of sterling salaries on a basis of revenue. It is true, as stated one-half at 1s. Gd. and the other at the Chamber meeting, that half at the current rate. This the increase in the, assessment would have meant a saving of from 13 to 17 per cent, some few
nearly four lakhs of dollars. years back was necessitated in
Civil Servants later opposed this consequence of the alarming fall
plan and were able to carry their in the sterling value of the
point, although, incidentally. dollar, which materially added to they would, now no doubt wel- the Government's expenditure. That circumstance no longer ob.come payment on such a basis. tains, and, as a result of the Sympathetic as we are towards any reasonable movement for the higher rates prevailing,
lessening of taxation, which Government is able to effect would be appreciated by busi- big saving on its sterling com ness houses and residents alike, mitments. It is, however, equal-we doubt whether the moment is ly true that in the meantime
propitious. Sir William Peel, other factors have arisen which
in his farewell address, con-
the
have lessened the Colony's in- tended that the only hope come, and, with the depression of improving the Colony's still making its effects felt, there | financial position is to cut is. no indication at the moment down the cost of administra- of the likelihood of any carly tion. He was on good ground improvement in revenue. When in making this submission. The the rates were last raised, vari-issue is one, which should be ous proposals were put to the taken in hand without undue Government in the way of altern-delay. The process would, in ative methods of securing fresh any event, take considerable | revenue, but these were rejected time to put into effect. by the authorities on the ground until either expenditure is re- that the fairest method of dis-duced or alternative means of de- raising fresh revenue are tributing the burden was byvised, we are afraid that the means of increasing the assess-prospects of rate reduction in ment. That point was disputed the near future will be somewhat by one of the Council members, remote.
But
"Oh, you should ride with Marvin sometime-he's just a crazy,
man when he gets behind the wheel."
P. S-Good night, Miss.
TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT
THE PETROL TAP
There are certain habits which every owner-driver should cultivate, because this goes a long way to prevent the neglect of various duties.
An excellent habit, for example, is to turn off the petrol tap when- ever the car is left idle for any length of time. It only needs a minulo speck of dirt in the car- burettor to cause flooding. Flood- ing is not only wasteful, but may prove dangerous.
A considerable quantity of petrol I may be lost overnight, and no one can afford nowadays to lose even n drop. A flooding carburetter is dangerous; because the air in the garage becomes mixed with fumes so that an explosive mixture. 18: produced. A naked light or per- hape, a lighted cigarette or pipel may cause a serious accident. If petrol flows on to the floor and comes into contact with the tyres they may be ruined.
It pays to turn off the fuel on every occasion,