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The Very Idea!
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES Compiled by Juliet Lowell
LADY, BE GOOD,
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With more than 2,000,000 still Great Britain, unemployed in certain industries are complaining
By F. BRITTEN AUSTIN bitterly, oven desperately, that TT may be that one day tho, camarilla loudly asserts that It they cannot and men to ill the Jobs U.S.S.R. will ceremoniously will. Nobody is fact doubts that now open in their factories. The add to its Communist Valhalla of the Soviet military machine in very reason is that there are thousands Marx, Lenin, and Stalin the plump, formidable. The Soviet author suit, but I am very modest and will of untrained, or semi-trained, men bespectacled, charmingly bene ties have spent fifteen years in only come in if I can be fitted by
volent figure of Mr. Lityloft building it up, and almost the female tallon. In the country, who are willing to work but who are not competent. (alias Mr. Finklestein, alias Mr. entire population is militarily
Wallach) For if Marx and trained. But will that machine-
created If a factory wants a machinist Lenin
the Communist work in the day of trial? It may there is no use in its hiring & Dictatorship, and Stalla very ruth be doubted. From first to last, longshoreman, employers point out.lessly made it work. It la Mr. Lit-the Soviet regime has been one And yet that is what will have to vinoff who has saved it at least gigantic bluff. It bluffs its own be done. In a little, employers temporarily. Two years ago the people (with the execution-squads
They tell me that your slogan will be forced to train unskilled Communist Dictatorship was in a of the O.G.P.U. to make good the inbour to certain work in Britain very bad way, Russin, indeed, bluff when necessary). It bluffs Is. "We stand behind every bed we
was dotted with the grandiose the outside world, with the most make." if they are to keep up with produc- modernities of the last year of the magnificently mendacious pro- As a newly-wed brido and un- tion demands. And in the train- First Five Year Plan, but these pagunda on record. It allows no accustomed, as I am to public ing of these unskilled hands Brit- colossal factories had been pur Soviet citizen to cross a fron- sleeping. I could not think of nin is going to lose valuable time: chased with the almost complete tiers, except on an official mission. using your bedding.
Very truly yours, means orders, and exhaustion of an enslaved people It allows only carefully shepherd- nn ed foreigners to enter and censors
Marian S pounds, shillings and pence. This and they functioned in
absurdly minimal ratio. to the their photographs on their exit. is a natural sequel to the industrial schedule decreed.
It is dimeult to know what goes slump, it is to be supposed. But
The collectivisntion of agri-jon inside Russia. It Is only in order to guard against it in culture had also Eden more or less certain, from the Soviet news- the future it would seem necessary enforced, amid the agonies of five papers-which the outside world does not read-that the colossal to reform the system by which the million exiled kulaka, but the re- industrial workers are trained. Insult had been an appalling famine modernism" imposed on primitive -particularly in the fertile region
Russia functions very badly. the past it was possible for fac-f the Ukraine which, under the Russians, it must be rememberoi, teries to keep large staffs of old regime, had made Odessa one are always Russians. In the days apprentices that the business of of the great wheat-ports of the of Catherine the Great, her learning could be carried on with world.
favourite, Potemkin, stage-manag- upon production. Soviet Russin could no longering her visit to the new territories Stubbs Rd,out any effect
The apprentice system has been dump those cut-price agricultural of the Crimea, territories which an Eldorado, im- virtually abolished in most bran- exports which provided it with were to be
a series of pasteboard ches of industry. The result is foreign credits; it could no longer provised
pay the salaries of its American villages filled with happy dancing that those who during the years
experts, and it could no longer peasants. The pensants had been of the depression might have been purchase the foreign machinery, specially imparted by the hundred learning an expert's trade, now the foreigu material of transport- thousand. On the return journey, of which it was in such the show over, hendreds of thou- that their services are required tion are not fitted to necept employ-urgent need. Soviet Russia had aands of them died.
no friends, and none knew better They have not been educnt-
than the Stalin group that foreign war would be the signal for immediate internal insurrec-Russia. It is still Russia, a land tions, especially in the Ukraine of bluff. But in Soviet Russia the and in the Caucasus-where the victims are numbered in millona. oll comes from. It was a bad out-That does not matter either. The
Western workt look. What is needed in Britain, as
Hees beautiful a reformed educa
photographs of vast new factories, elsewhere, is
of vast new hydro-electric plants, tional system. Men should be able to fit themselves for work in aero- Mr. Litvino has changed all of yast new this and that.
automobile factories, that. He looked around plane or
the reads magnificent statistics. En textile mills or engine-rooms, at
world, seeing It in terms of dip-point of fact, the factorles- silvanced technical schools, #ulomacy. Mr. Litvinoff went te paralysed by an utter lack of eo- mansion. "Ivory carvings, sandal-
between the State ported by the Government and the Washington, talked charmingly, if ordination industries for whose benefit they
somewhat vaguely, of eventually Trusts, and by the phenomenal in-wood article, brass, copper, marble, more than
wood-wares, paintings on ivory, M. Olczewska. the purpose of escorting the largely exist: This,
paying the Russian debts to stability of labour for ever E..SehumanLTS. E. Schumann. Other two ships back to ever, is an age of specialisation America, and secured the boon, wandering off elsewhere in search and other curiosities unparalleled E. Schumann. North, adds to the difficulties of The opportunities for untrained charged with immense prestige, of of a better job and better living of its kind. Avail of the op-
men are few and far between, and
below long conditions-function fur 80 it becomes harder to educate one's Vocal talking with Orchestra quarrel between two sections of self with employment Increasingly denied. If he did not secure a capacity, even according to Soviet never be repaired.
material, on the evidence of the bitter de-i C-2727 The Leck-Selection Pts.. 1 and 2..... London Palladium Orchestra. the Chinese Navy-for. such it dificult to find. A square peg's on, he secured a promise of rail statistics. And Soviet statistics,
edges have to be trimmed, now, to C-2733 The Nation's Loyalty Pris, 1 and 2
Aldershot Tatton is-is no direct concern of the St in a round hole. And one does aviation material, to be financed nunciations in Soviet newspapers, C-2734 Homage March
Light Symphony Orchesten British authorities, and, as has not have to be a radical to appre-specially created Import and are utterly false from the begin- Light Symphony Orchestra, C.2735 Accession Memories Irts., 1 and 2 Dand of the Coldstream Guards been explained, until the two furthermore, when the untrained wolts. That Soviet Russia does managers, all have to satisfy, first c/o. Station WEAF, C-2738 Jubilee Dance Memories (1910-1935) New Mayfair Orchestra, vessels which escaped from Can-man can find that vague "some-not to-day enjoy all the advantages and last, the demands of a colossal New York City.
New Mayfair Orchestra. ton are definitely regarded by the thing" in Prts.. I and 2
the Colonies.. These C-2739 Jubilee Music Hall Parade (1919-1914)
Jubilee Music Hall Parade (1914-1921)
Central Government as rebels, Colonies, which prefer to be known he expected is due to the Soviet bureaucracy wallowing in a sen of Dear Sirs:
I can sing bass like nobody's as Dominions now that they have habit of being too frankly cynical official papers. From first to last,
of the imbecility of the statistics aro faked. This business. How about getting to- C-2740 Jubilee Music Hall Parade (1922-1932)
there is no option left to the got into long trousers, don't want propos authorities here but to regard skilled men. They have enough bourgeois peoples. In the west applies not only to industry but to gether and forming
of them already, and to spare. also Mr. Litvinoff had an up-agriculture and transportation, Can also drive car, mind baby, CO., LTD. them as part and parcel of the Farming on Canada's prairies and portunity. Hitler's advent sent a fluvial and railroad. On the col clean house, and run errands.
Chinese Navy. It is clear, from ranching in Australia's vast hinter-shock of alarm throughout Europe. lective farms, the bright new the statements made by Vice-land is not a job for a "tender-t meant that at no distant date tractors rust uselessly because of On the river foot." It takes skill and patience, the carefully piled applecart of the lack of repairs. Admiral Chen and Commodore hard work to grow No, 1 wheat in Versailles was going to be upset, wharves the piled commodities rot Particularly it meant. on thebecause the badly repaired TEHNICS888.8898556JGS Morse, that there has yet been Alberta and beef cattle in Queen evidence of Nazi leaders, that steamers break down with a no settlement reached between land. And boys don't learn how
A bright young fellow hold the the Hai Chi and the Hai Shen under the present school system. Itussia was menaced in her wheat-frequency which is the despair of Dear Voice of Experience:
growing province of the Ukraine. those who compile optimistic re- The German-Pallah accord con- turns for the benefit of the post of cashier in our bank. A ANNOUNCING
on the one hand and the North-
firmed that hideous suspicion. "higher-up." On the railroads, couple moved to town and this Once more the Russian steam- well-the story of the Soviet cashier fell in love with the wife, roller is to loom on the German railroads would make a book, and a silly little butterfly. frontier. We have had some ex- a very funny one. Everywhore He juggled his figures and ran perience of Russian steam-rollers. reigns on the voluminous and de-away with her taking nearly Will the Soviet pattern prove to be talled evidence of the Soviet news- 350,000 of the bank's money with
TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1935.
Ken Harvey. A NAVAL QUARREL
.Ken Harvey,
Choir of St. Margaret's Westminister.
·D-8307 Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin). Banjo Solo
"Naughty Marietta" Excerpls. Banjo Solo -8312 You and the night and the music. Comedienne
Comedienne Erbert 'enry opplethwaite.
B-8313 Old Bohemian Town
Cara Min
DA-1391 Poor man's garden. Tenor
Friend O' Mine. Tetor
DA-189 I Love thee (Grieg). Tenor
Parted. Tenor
·DA-1404 Candle Light. Tenor
An old sacred lullaby. Tenar
534 None but the weary Heart Contralto Dedication (Schumann), Contralto
B-552 Nightingale Song. Soprano
Do not be Cruel. Soprano
E555 Cradle Song (Mozart). Soprano
Gracio Fields,
Unfortunately, Hongkong is ..Gracie Fields. Alfredo and his Orchestra, still the haven of refuge of the Alfredo and his Orchestra.
J. McCormack. Chinese cruisers Hai Chi and Hai J. McCormick. Shen, which, for reasons not yet
R. Croaks. wholly explained, chose to leave. ... McCormack. Canton last week. The presence M. Olezewska, in port of Northern cruisers, for
Warning and Up there on the . Soprano C-2726 St. Patrick's Night
Pt. 1 and 2
Concert Waltz "Jayousness"
· Jubilee - Music Hall Parade (1933-1935)
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DRIVING DOWNHILL
Motorists differ considerably in the manner in which they descend hills. Many owner-drivers make a practice of switching off the ignition when the car is travelling
ern warships on the other.TO-DAY'S MOTORING TIP Hongkong's position in the mat- ter is somewhat delicate from the fact that the Nanking naval craft can do nothing, whilst the ships are in British waters, ex- cept with the consent of the Hongkong authorities. At the moment, it is not clear why the downhill. escaping cruisers should have
This is a mistake, since the fring been driven back into Hongkong mixture induced into the combus- when they were encountered out- tion chambers is not fired, so the side British waters, thus further unburnt fuel vapour tends to wash the oil from the cylinder and piston complicating the situation. I, walls. This is a serious thing, for Jas there seems little reason to until fresh oil seal is formed this doubt, the Ning Hai had author may take two or three minutes after switching the ignition again ity from Nanking to take thewear is excessive. vessels North, the matter might
The best way of descending" a have been more satisfactority hill when the driver is expert at settled outside British waters, changing gear and the brakes are by the more superior craft Inknown to he reliable is to const in neutral with the engine idling. sisting on the Hai Chi and Hai Failing this the throttle should be Shen proceeding to the nearest closed and a gear should be en- Chinese port. Whatever
gaged. A low gear is advisable the
on a steep hill, since this allows the reasons for the cruisers leaving engine to be used as a more power- Canton, it would seem that they ful braku, made their decision, without hav- ling first taken the precaution to provincial authorities. Various learn Nanking's attitude towards rumours are current as to how them, doubtless in the hope that they have been able to carry on, they would be welcomed back (but, whatever the truth of these with open arms. Matters have may be, it seems certain that not worked out quite as expected, financial reasons compelled their however. These two cruisers |departure from Canton. At the have, for many years, been a moment, the officers of these source of anxiety to Chinese vessels would appear to be at-
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"I WAS
(Continued on next columnj
tolling the women at the bridge club about our quarrels, and they were every one on my side.
a quartot?
Harold T
LITTLE MISS BUTTERFLY To a Radio Announcer.
him. I think you can point a very strong moral from this story, and besides will you suggest someone to succeed him as teacher in our Sunday school,
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papers-Inefficiency and corrup tion. Nor is the Soviet population, imbued with that universal thusiasm which the Soviet pro- pagandists, and our parlour- Bolsheviks, would have us believe. The mass-terrorism, the executions, of Inst winter are proof of it. Even the Soviet Govern- ment does not waste cartridges" unnecessarily. There was some thing serious there which had to bo. stamped out. The subject cratwhile Republics of the Ukraine and the Caucasus notoriously awalt, only the outbreak of a foreign war to make a fight for freedom. And the Soviet-Govern ment, which used to make a crime of anything that was not "inter- nationalism," now exhorts its citizens to the name "of the "Fatherland.” Most assuredly, all- Is not well. Soviet Russia in monstrous bluff. Let those beware who trust to ft.