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LANDON
Age 48, was biconspicuous fijuri 4 1932, when he won Kansas Gov ernorship despite pro-Rausevelt land alide. Balanced
budgeta tit Repúblicana---Conservative, Big Busi. ncas--spotted him a
candidate. Straightforward Middle Westerner. cautions and shrewd, good wilæer.
ROOSEVELT
Age 54. Of old Dutch ancestry. Is one of few members of the "Four Hundred" (America's aristocracy)
o outer polities. Educated at Gro- ton, Eton of U.S., and at Harvard, turned Democrat despite family's rigid Republicanisms. Distant coush of Jamoua Theodore R
32 Million Americans
Most of them voted
will decide
It is a disturbing technique. It keeps the country in a froth of uncertainty.
The New Deal which has emerged from it is a curious hodgepodge, which not even but the standard- their most important speeches well-versed New Dealers
easily describe. So many bearers have been the epitome policy. He hasn't made speeches Americans are tired of the New at all. He has not campaigned. Deal, because it is not simple and
can
THREE AND A half million of the most indepen- dent voters in America probably will decide on November 9 who is to be the next President of the enough. United States. They are of dignity. half of the seven million
Those who pretend to know Instead, as President, he has logical. non-party voters in the last how the election will turn out been surveying the drought area,
There is a chance that over two American elections.. must be able to say that over going to Canada, and doing other
half of the seven million in- . three and a half million in official work.
dependents are tired of the man for dependents have already made
HE HAS TRAVELLED Roosevelt and his New Deal and in 1932. The year they voted have.
voters, than if he were cum cause he has other aims, but for Hoover, his Democratic op If they have, my own guess paigning. But the honour hus because his hand is steadier. ponent Al Smith received 15,- would be that they have decided been for his office, not his can-
for Mr. Roosevelt. Perhaps all didacy. It may have done his To do so they will need to be 000, votes. The year they
seven million of them know candidacy more good than if he convinced that Landon is a pro- voted for Roosevelt, his Re- pretty well that they will vote had been vote-hunting. It has fressive and that he will publican opponent Hoover re- for Roosevelt, and if they do he put Governor Landon under a dominate the Republican party and not be a tool of the interests will carry the country in as near bundicap. (ceived 15,000,000 votes.
which have dominated the party a landslide as he had four years
He has been opposed to the since the days of Theodore ago.
President, not the man seeking Roosevelt. So far they are not re-election.
convinced. The probabilities are they wil not be convinced in Governor Landon has made November.
ineffectual beginning
Hongkong Telegraph. Hoover in 1928 and for Roosevelt up their minds. Maybe they farther, and been seen by more will vote for Landon, not be-
THURSDAY, OCT. 29, 1936.
ADVERTISING THE COLONY
The opening of the Hongkong Travel Association's headquar This year the outcome of the ters yesterday provides visitors election depends, not on the rock-
But if they are independent to the Colony with ready facili- bottom ifteen million in each ties which they Have hitherto party, who can be relied on to voters they may not have made {lacked, and marks a welcome follow the flag, but on the in- their minds. They may wish
to hear both candidates deliver an step forward in the movement dependent vote. to attract more tourists to our shores. Conveniently situnted
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If Roosevelt can be sure of 'just over half the seven million he 19 elected (granted, of course, that his following is evenly distributed through the forty-eight states).
•By
Raymond Gram Swing
THE BEST POOLS taken
so far under-score the expoctu- tion of Roosevelt's re-election. Certain states are for Roosevelt beyond a shadow of a doubt. To get a majority of states he needs win only Idaho, Montana, West Virginia, Colorado, Michi- gan and one small doubtful state
The clection campaign is, in cept for such services as were effect, focussed on these seven rendered him by the hotels. million independent voters. Out before choosing. In that event campaigner, He is without now rated Republican. Now he will be able to go direct of the total forty millions, they they cannot have made up their mastery-of-any-of-the-arts-of-The-Republicans--have-only to the Bureau and not only will decide the outcome.
minds, for the main speeches of public appeal. But everywhere half as many sure states. And secure all the information which
the campaign will not be deliver he has gone he has made friends, well over two-thirds of what ed until the end of this month.
whose friends begin to hear what they need for a majority must a fine man he is.
be classed as highly doubtful.
That is his rank to-day: hê is
he needs, but also be given every Republican Governor Landon is THAT EXPLAINS why facility for seeing the sights and
They may believe that as jenjoying privileges in the way stressing his progressivism; he of recreation which were not figures that the seven million things stand to-day they will previously open to the tourist. voted for Roosevelt four years yote for Roosevelt, but be open Now that we have regular air ago largely because he is a to argument from Governor links with the Homeland, liberal. That explains, too, why Landon. Malaya, Australia and the the campaign is not bitter. Both United States, with an early sides are appealing to the most prospect of aerial transport to sensitive element in the Ameri. two important speeches by early tired of Roosevelt.
It is clear that Landon has political conflict. Rough September, one on taxation, the him, particularly those in the and from China as well, Hong-
other on freedom in education. üpper income brackets, but I only a fighting chance which
can
The Governor had made only
"a mighty nice nian." After his main speeches he may win higher rank in public esteem.
A good many Americans are (Some hate
The close fights are in New Ilinois, York, Per. sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Iowa. Compare these close states with the close states in the Roosevelt column.
kong should attract a growing stuff would give offence. His views on the greater issues am not referring to them.) he must fight for in the 'very
A DICTATOR'S WIFE
ones,
Her Only Luxury
willt were
number of visitors, especially Both Roosevelt, and Landon of relief, labour and social They admire his optimism, they heart of America. He must win during the winter season. Lord have been restrained and gallant security are scheduled for later credit him with excellent his major battles; Roosevelt Rothermere, during his short as adversaries. Their licuten- And President Roosevelt has motives, but they are tired of needs to win only a few minor stay here, was tremendously imants have been boisterous been following a very canny his technique. pressed both with the scenic beauties of the Colony and with the delightful autumn climate. He hazarded the view that, with all the attractions we have to Joffer, there is no reason what- ever, now that we are on the map aerially, why wealthy people who make a practice of wintering fabroad, should not bear this
Colony in mind, the more so since LIZABETH Cromwell, the wife of living costs would be no higher Oliver Cromwell, died on October than those which they are in the 8. 1672. habit of paying elsewhere. The daughter of a wealthy London Gradually, Hongkong is becom-merchant, Sir James Bourchier, she ing popular amongst people in had, in 1020 married a man whom Malayn and the North who are Carlyle has described as "a solid, able to snatch a few weeks leave substantial, inoffensive farmer of St. the former finding a welcome tves she had brought up a family change in the cooler weather of four sons and four daughters; she here and the latter appreciating had Hved through the horrors of a n climate which is more equable Civil War in which husband and than the rigours of winter to sons were fighting, and one son was which they are exposed. Noted to be killed; and then, when youth was past, she had left her country Americans who arrived, here
home In Huntingdonshire for aboard the Philippines Clipper palace in
share the Whitehall, to were surprised at the beauties, high estate of the husband now pro- claimed as "Oliver Cromwell, Lord of the place and they may be protector of the Commonwealth of counted upon to make known England, Scotlant, and Ireland.". their impressions when they get back to the States. All these people who come here and are task without ample funds, and years after the Restoration. It pre-served to her household by his the microscope of a spiteful critic, impressed by. Hongkong as the measure of its success must sents a very curious mixture of careful housekeeper. "Scotch collops her careful housewifery and simple two ways of living were "sordid fru- winter resort are an asset to the 'be the measure of the support and leaves us in no doubt as to the favourite
cookery, politics.. and spitefulness, and marrow puddings were
breakfast dishes! The Humy," Lhough no doubt greater Colony, since they spread for it receives. Hongkong
would have been just as has Royalist sympathies of the author. natively to the poor of St. Martin's surely denounced as ostentatious ex
kitchen scraps, were given alter-luxury and wide the attractions we have everything to gain by judicious
The nickname Joan was a telling in-the-Fields and St. Margaret's ravagance. Sny surviva dur hus to offer. But organised pro- advertising of its claims on the for In those days Joan was Westminster; and, after great bon- band by fourteen years, dying in the paganda is also essential, and tourist. It is for the business commonly recognised as the kitchen- quets, the soldiers of the guard house of a son-in-law in Northamp that is precisely the purpose for interests of the Colony as awench
("Graney Jonn deth keel the would be called in to cat up "the tonshire. We can only hope that in which the Travel Association whole to see that the Association | pot, ang Shakespeare half a cen- relies of the victuals." Yet chir her quiet country home she remem- was created. The Association is enabled to exert the maximum humble, origin, is carried out in Cromwell was a woman of sordid cures, of her Ave years in a palace,
tury earlier). The same Insinuation kitchen critic tells us that Metross bered the pleasures, rather than the cannot, however, discharge its influence of which it is capable. the frontispiece, a portrait showing frugality and thrifty baseness."
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An amusing side-light is given on petticoat.government la the home of the man who ruled a nation. The Protector had called for an erango With her. London upbringing this Mistress Cromwell as a plain, sen to eat with his lain of veal. But good lady's response to this country squire's wife was no doubt sible-looking housewife, in Puritan simple request (made ut n time hood and starched collar; but in the able to play the great lady when corner of the picture is a climbing when Cromwell was at war
was that "oranges occasion called for it. Indeed, an monkey, a device known to all as Spain).
and for her part she never intended historian of a century Inter tells us the symbol of an ignorant upstart, oranges now, and cost a great apiece,
"She was a hundred times more to give 10!" that she was "a woman of enlarged understanding and elevated spirit," and "an excellent housewife, as suited for a barn than a palace," Mistress Cromwell's one luxury the writer tells us. When she came capable of descending to the kitcile to the Palace of Whitehall she had was the keeping of a coach, and her favourite recreation was to drive with propriety as she was of acting little strap stairs and in her exalted station with dignity," yet, strangely enough, it is from the made, so that she might watch her out with her daughters for a country servants unseen and catch evildoers plenie. But even this simple plea- back-stair gasalp of an anonymous
unawares. She had partitions put sure was a cause for grievance with writer-perhaps a discharged servant up in many of the great apartments, our auther, for the couch and horses
that we gather most of our scanty
as she found them too large after were kept up at the express of the the rooms of her modest country nation. And as for the picnics: "It information about this model of the domestic virtues.
house. She kept cows in St. James's saved many a meal at home, when Poric and a dairy in Whitehall, and upon pretence of business her lady-
And Spiteful Criticism
carrying- "cavey of spinsters and sewers in 'n went abroad, her privy chamber. "They were all some dainty provant for her own The Court and the Kitchen of of them ministers daughters and her daughters' repust, she spent Elizabeth Cromwell, commonly call-fact not apparently, counted to their whole days in short visite and long
walks in the air." Joan Cromwell, the wife of the credit in Royalist circles!. Usurper, truly described and repre- sented," was published in 1864, four Plenty of good plain food was
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Poor Mistress Cromweli!
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