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IL-8267
With a smile and a song. Baritone The Pavement artist. Baritone
...A. Burch. A. Burch.
#6201 "Stop Přews" Piano Medley Medley-1'ts, 1 and 2....it, Jacobson. JL-8202 Mallorca Pipes and Drums of the 2nd Batt. Sents Guards
(a) March (h) Strathspey (e) Reel
Vocal
Blue Moon. Vocul Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
B-8294
Old Mammy Mine.
Belle Baker,
· Belle Baker, j
B-R300
Choir of St. Margarel's Westminister, O Come, Te Servants of the Lord
Choir of St. Margaret's Westminister. B-8307 Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin). Banjo Solo
Ken Harvey. "Naughty Marietta" Excerpts. Banjo Solo
Krn Harvey. B-8312 You and the night and the music. Comedienne Gravis Fields. 'Erbert 'enry 'epplethwaite. Comedienne ......Gracie Fields. B4313 Old Bohemian Town
Cara Min
DA-1391 Poor man's garden. Tenor
Friend O' Mine. Tener
DA-1894 I Love thee (Grieg). Tenor
Parted. Tenor
DA-1401 Candle Light. Tenor
An old sacred lullaby. Tenor
1634 None but the weary Heari. Contralto
Dedication (Schumann), Contralto
552 Nig Ingale Song. Soprano
Do ot he Cruel, Soprano
B-655 Cradle Song (Mozart), Soprano
Warning and Up there on the Hill, Suprano
't.. and Z
C2726 BL Patrick's Night
€2733 The Nation's Loyalty Pria.. 1 and 2 C-2734 Homage March
Pris 1 and 2 C-2739 Jubilee Music Hall Parade (1910-1914)
Jubilee Music Hall Parade (1914-1921)
C-2740 Jubileo Musle Hall Parade (1922-1932)
· Jubilee Music-Hall Parade (1983-1985)
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25, 1985.
LAND OF BLUFF AND TERRORISM
By F. BRITTEN. AUSTIN
The Very Idea!
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES
Cumpiled by Juliet Lowell LADY, BE GOOD
one day the camarilla loudly acaerts that it To a Ladies Taylor.
T may be that IT
very
If a factory wanta machintat there is no use in its hiring a longshoreman, employers point dut. And yet that is what will have to be done. In a little. employers will be forced to train unskilled labour to certain work in Britain if they are to keep up with produc- tion demands. And in the train- lag of these unskilled handa Brit- nin is going to lose valuable time: time which means orders, and pounds, shillings and pence. This is a natural sequel to the industrial slump, it is to be supposed. But The collectivis lion of agri-
".
I would like to order a blue
(Sgd.) Mrs. Charles C.
*
With more than 2,000,000 stili, unemployed in Great Britain, certain Industries nro complaining bitterly, even desperately, that they cannot find men to fill the jobs U.S.S.R. will edremoniously will. Nobody in fact doubts that Dear Sir: now open in their factories. The add to its Communist Valhalla of the Soviet milltary machine la very reason is that there are thousands Marx, Lenin, and Stalin the plump, formidable. The Soviet authori-sult, but I am very modest and will of untrained, or semi-trained, men bespectacled, charmingly benetics have spent fifteen years in only come in if I can be fitted by
volent figure of Mr. Litvinaff building and almost the female tallog work but who are not competent. (line Mr. Finklestein, alias Mr. estive population is militarily Wallach)." For if Marx and trained. But will that machine Lenin created the Communist work in the day of trial? Dletatorship, and Stalin very ruth be doubted. From first
It may to last, Iesaly made it work, it is Mr. Lit the Soviet regime has been one
TRY A COUCH vinoff who has saved it--at least gigantic bluff. It bluffs Its own To a Manufacturer of Bed Springs. temporarily. Two years ago the people (with the execution-squads Gentlemen: Communist Dictatorship was in a of the O.G.P.U. to make good the They tell me that your slogan was dotted
bad way. Russin, indeed, bluff when necessary). It blutte is, "We stand behind every bed wo
with the grandiose the outside world, with the most make." modernities of the last year of the magnificently mendacious pro- As a newly-wed bride and un- First Five Year Plan, but these paganda on record. It allows no accustomed 119 1 colossal factories had been pur Soviet citizen to cross its fron- sleeping. I could not think of am to public chased with the almost complete tiers, except on an official mission, using your bedding, exhaustion of an enslaved people It allows only carefully shepherd-
Very truly yours, -and they functioned in and foreigners to enter and censors absurdly minimal ratlo to
Marian S the their photographs on their exit. schedule decreed,
It is difficult to know what goes on inside Russia. It is only culture had also been more or less certain, from the Soviet newa- enforced, amid the agonies of five papers-which the outside world million exiled kulaks, but the re. does not read-that the colossal Insult had been an appalling famine modernism" imposed on primitive
Russia -particularly in the fertile region the past it was possible for face of the Ukraine which, under the Russians, it must be remembered, functions very badly. tories to keep large staffs of old regime, had made Odessa one
are always Russinus. In the days i 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- *>c[ucrazy, upon Stubbs Rd, But any effect
Soviet Russia could no longer leg her visit to the new territories The apprentice system has been dump those rut-price agricultural of the Crimea, territories which to be an Eldorado, im. virtually abolished in most bran-exports which provided it with were
a series of qasteboard 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 pensants. The peasants had been of the depression might have been purchase the foreign machinery, specially imported by the hundred fearsing an expert's trade, now | the foreign material of transport thousand. On the return journey. that their services are required tion, of which it was in such the show over, hradreds of thou-
Russia had sands of them died. are not fitted to accept employ-urgent need. Suviot
no friends, and none knew better ment. They have not been educat-
than ed.
the Stalin group that n foreign war would be the signal That did not matter. It WRA for immediate internal bisurrec Russin. It is still Rugain, a land tions, especially in the Ukraine of bluff. But in Soviet Russin the and in the Caucasus-where the victims are numbered in millions. Dear Princes and Gentic. Men only:
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TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1935.
B complicated situation. The
of
SUSSCS3JSCESSSESSEES Morse, that there has yet been
in order to guard against it in the future it would seem necessary to reform the system by which the
Industrial workers are trained.
CHANGE NEEDED
or
American recognition, denied. If he did not secure
of
the factorica-
State
for
ever
"We stand behind every bed we
make."
OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME
•
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A NAVAL QUARREL
Delhi, India. Unfortunately, Hongkong is
oil comes from. It was a bad nut- That does not matter either. The Alfredo nad his Orchestra, still the haven of refuge of the What is needed in Hritain, as look.
Western world
Buy direct from us the manu- Beex beautiful Alfredo and his Orchestra.
A reformed educa-
photographs of vast new factories, profits-our only aim is to look to facturers and save middlemon's ... McCormack. Chinese cruisers Hai Chi and Hai elsewhere, is
tional system. Men should be able
of vast now hydro-electric plants; the interest J. McCormick. Shen, which, for reasons not yet to fit themselves for work in aero-
Mr. Litvinoff has changed all of vast new this and that. It send your order for the following of our customers. .K. Crooks.
plane
automobile R. Crooks wholly explained, chose to leave textile mills or engine-rooms, at world, seeing it in terms of dip point of fact,
factories, that. He looked around the reads magnificent statistics. In articles open to your curiosities J. McCormack Canton last week. The presence advanced technical schools, suplomacy. Mr. Litvinoff went to paralysed by nu utter lack of co-
and decoration to your grand ported by the Government and the Washington, talked charmingly, if ordination between the
mansion. Ivory carvings, sandal- M. Olczewska, in port of Northern cruiser, for industries for whose benefit they somewhat vaguely, of eventually Trusts, and by the phenomenal in-wood article, brass, copper, marble, M. Olczewska. the purpose of escorting the largely exist, This, more than
paying the Russian debta to stability of labour
wood-wares, paintings on ivory, Schumann other two ships back to the ever, is an age of specialisation Americs, 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, off of a better job and better living of its kind." Avnil of the op-
men are few and far between, and
portunity. When once lost, can long conditions-function 80
far below It becomes harder to educate one's Vocal talking with Orchestra, quarrel between two sections self with employment increasingly loan, he secured a promise of rail statistics. And Soviet statistics,
capacity, even according to Soviet never be repaired,
Imperial Ivory House. G2727 The Lerk-Selection PA, 1 and 2 ... London Palladium Orchestra. the Chinese Navy--for such it edges have to be trimmed, now, to aviation material, to be financed nunciations in Soviet newspapers,
dilleult to find. A square peg's
rond material, war manterial, on the evidence of the bitter de- ..Aldershot Tattoo. is-is no direct concern of the it in a round hole. And one does
HOW'S YOUR KNITTING, Light Symphony Orchestra. British authorities, and, as has not have to be a radical to appre Export Bank, for which Americaning upwards. Trust managers, by a specially created Import and are utterly false from the begin-
HAROLD? Concert Waltz-"Joyousness"
Light Symphony Orchestra.
ciate it. The time has passed, C-2735 Accesalou Memaries Pets., A and Hand of the Coldstream Guards. been explained, until the two furthermore, when the untrained would find the capital and the factory managers, departmental Landt Trio and White, C-8738 Jubilee Dance Memories (1910-1935) ..New Mayfair Orchestra. vessels which escaped from Can-man can find that vague "some credita, That Soviet Russia docs managers, all have to satisfy, first c/o, Station WEAF,
thing" in the Colonies. These not to-day enjoy all the advantages and last, the demands of a colossal New York City. ..New Mayfair Orchestraton are definitely regarded by the Colonies, which prefer to be known he expected is due to the Soviet bureaucracy wallowing in a sea of Dear Sirs:
Central Government as rebels, as Dominions now that they have habit of being too frankly cynical official papers. From first to last, I can sing bass like nobody's there is no option left to the got into long trousers, don't want propos the Imbecility of the statistics are faked. This business. How about getting to- authorities here but to regard unskilled men. They have enough pee peoples. In the west applies not only to industry but together and forming a quartet ? of them already, and to spare also Mr. Litvinoff had an op-agriculture and transportation, Can also drive car, mind baby, 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 inching in Australia's vast hinter-shock of alarm throughout Europe. lective farms, the bright new
Harold T. the statements made by Vice- land is not a job for a "tender- meant that at no distant date tractors ruat uselessly herause of foot." It takes skill and patience, the carefully piled applecart of the lack of repairs. On the river Admiral. Chen and Commodore hard work to grow No. 1 wheat in Versailles was going to be upset. wharves the piled commodities rot LITTLE MISS BUTTERFLY
Particularly Alberta and beef cattle in Queens-
It meant. on the because the badly repaired Nazi lenders,
To a Radio Announcer. that steamers break down with n no settlement reached between land. And boy's don't learn how evidence of
under the present school system. Rusain was menaced in her wheat-frequency which is the despair of Dear Voice of Experience: the Hai Chi and the Ilai Shen
growing province of the Ukraine. those who compile optimistic re- A bright young fellow hold the on the one hand and the North-
The German-Polish accari cun- turns for the benefit of the post of cashier in our bank. A firmed that hideous suspicion.
the rallroads, couple moved to town and this warships on the
"higher-up." On other, TO-DAY'S MOTORING TIP
Once more the Russian steam- well-the story of the Soviet cashier fell in love with the wife, Hongkong's position in the mat-
roller is to loom on the German railroads would make a book, and a silly little butterfly. ter is somewhat delicate from
frontier. We have had some ex- a very funny one. Everywhere He juggled his figures and ran perience of Russian steam-rollers. reigns-on the voluminous and de-away with her taking nearly the fact that the Nanking naval craft can do nothing, whilst the
Motorista differ considerably in Will the Soviet pattern prove to be tailed evidence of the Soviet news-
more efficient? The
(Continued on next column) ships are in British waters, ex-hills. Many owner-drivers make the manner in which they descend cept with the consent of the a practice of switching off the Hongkong authorities. At the ignition when the car is travelling moment, it is not clear why the downhill. escaping cruisers should have been driven back into Hongkong when they were encountered out- side British waters, thus further complicating the situation. If, as there seems little reason to doubt, the Ning Hai had author- ity from Nanking to take the vessels North, the matter might have been more satisfactorily settled outside British waters, by the more superior.craft in-
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 brake. made their decision without hav-
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This is a mistake, since the firing mixture induced into the combus tion chambers is not fred, so the unburnt fuel vapour tends to wash the all from the cylinder mid piston walls. This is a serious thing, for until fresh oil seal is formed-this may take two or three minutes after, switching the ignition again
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hill when the driver is expert at The best way of descending a
changing gear and the brakes are known to be reliable ls to const
ing 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- naval circles. They have for tempting to bargain with Nan- long maintained a more or loss king for the best terms possible semi-independent status and in. the circumstances. The pity have seemingly been unable to of it all is that Hongkong has count on financial support either unwillingly. been brought into from the Central Government or the picture.
Soviet
"I was telling the women at the bridge club about our quarrels, and they were every one on my side."
$60,000 of the bank's money with him. I think you can point a very strong moral from this story, and besides will you suggeat someone to succeed him as teacher in our Sunday school,
William J--~.
SLICED BEEF Chiengo, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Paclic RR. Co.,. Chicago, Ill. Gentlemen:
I'm titled to money for my cow, which would have moved off the trucks If you train had not been express, or if the whistle had been blow of which it did neither, the cow would not have been injured when she was killed.
Chester P
en-
papers-inefficiency and corrup ilon. Nor is the Soviet population Imbued with that universal thusiasm which the Soviet pro- pagandists, and Our parlour Bolshevike, would have us believe. The mass-terrorisni, the ma86- exccutions, of Inst winter are proof of it. Even the Soviet Govern- ment does not waste cartridges unnecessarily. There was thing serious there which had to bo stamped out. The subject erstwhilo Repubiles of the Ukraine and the Caucasus notoriously await only the outbreak of foreign war to make a fight for Troodom. And the Sovlet Govern- ment, which used make a crimo
Some
of anything that was not "Inter- nationalism," now exhorts its citizens in the name of the "Fatherland." Most assuredly, all is not well. Soviet Russia le a monstrous bluff. Let those beware who trust to It...