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PHILIP JORDAN in another of his stories of men he met in his recent visit to America tells here of Harry Lloyd Hopkins who spends millions in rescuing the self- respect of the unemployed
HE
SPENDS
SIXTY MILLION POUNDS A YEAR
INE floors up, in a
room hung with modern pictures, is the office of Hurry Lloyd Hopkins, who spends £60,000,000 every year; and
D'AZEVEDO-At the French Hos.wishes he had a whole lot
pital.
L
4.m., on 3rd
November, 1937, Manuel Jose more.
D'Azevedo, aged 14 years. The
Funeral will pass the Monument And if Harry Hopkins, curl-
at 5.30 p.m. to-day.
The
ing his long legs round chairs and tables, were not the most re-
Hongkong Telegraph.markable of the contents of his
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1937.
the pictures which de- corate It would be. Not for their quality, which is in- different; not for their ingi- mative conception and originality, which are almost totally lacking. The ideal of collective secur- but because they are the symbol ity, which has seemed to have of a dream come true.
DOING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS' JOB
been almost lost of hate, has come suddenly back into pro-
They were painted by unem- minence. With the adoption of
and they played artists, measures by Great Britain and France,
paid for out of Government assisted by other
funds-not because they
were
were
powers, to patrol the Mediter- good but because their artists
has
was
were unemployed.
From his head, and from those of a devoted staff, idens flow unceasingly and are—so far as a limited budget permits -transmuted into reality.
"We couldn't finish all there is to do in 30 years," Harry Hopkins says.
And if he can
he'll go on for 30 years.
Neither the jeers of economic royalists nor their lobbying against him are going to stop him. He has the inestimable advantages of not being a cynic and of possessing an integrity rure in any public life.
His drawback-as I have al- ready said-is a taste for play- ing politics. It may be that he plays them because of his unniterable. conviction-which
I share that there is no man books gets the sort of work knowledge that nothing worth in the States who could do the which is most congenial to them, while can be accomplished with job half so well as he; and that To treat each individual unem- out daring and without, some he is not willing to jeopardise ranean against pirate submar-
ployed person merely as a poten- times, throwing caution over his position for anything that ines, the principle reappeared in
tinl producer whatever task board.
is not 100 per cent. worth fight- the political scheme. It
The agency through which
may next come to hand would very
He talks fiercely but without ing for. welcome. It
beenthey were purchased is the same
be as abhorrent to him as the gesture-so that he gives you
If he knows that the art of shown that it is no impossible agency as that which purchases
confidence. ideal and that
Occasionally he politics is compromise, he does international the labour and time and talents iden of pay for no work. police action.is á practical pro- of America's vast herdes of un-
That such an outlook im- whips his spectacles on and off: not the less despise the necessity position. All that is required is
It is mensely complicates his task occasionally uncoils a leg and for compromise. employed men and women. the will and the determination and the courage to put it into called the Works Progress Ad. is obvious. The human element, wraps it round something elso; And he has one other quality: ministration; and the head of it, the psychological element, is as but he doesn't move his head. ruthlessness. Sometimes it mani With the meeting of
its, guiding spirit and creator, much a part of his book-keeping So that, like a man paralysed fests itself in ways that make powers in Brussels, which Japan is young 47 years' old Harry and card-index system as the from the waist up, there is some- one believe that our own degrad- has refused to attend, the world Hopkins, the man with the long names and addresses of these thing unreal about him.
ing system of the dole has some- will take another step in
the legs. direction of collective effort to
But the unreality, of course, thing to be said for it, after all. work; for he refuses to treat is not that at all: what is un- preserve peace. The object of Harry Hopkins believes that
He can, at the stroke of a pen, the meeting is to discover some without work
the individual as a unit of the real is to be a man who gets lay off relief, as and when he means of mediation in the Far man or woman can never be a an unemployed
things done in a Innd East war, but if mediation is not
whore thinks fit, as many people, as he prefers talk to chooses. Sixty thousand, one
operation.
the
be
for whom it is his job to find
mass.
fnd
accepted the powers will useful citizen or a human being It isn't while talking with everybody faced with the necessity of de- with the minimum of dignity Harry Hopkins that you appre action; and who allows no hundred thousand, may wake ciding upon some other course which almost alone raises him ciate the magnitude of his task enemy, however powerful, to up one morning and of intervention. It would seem the alternative must be some-
from the animal. And since it or the devotion which he brings deflect him from his purpose, that they have no means of sub- thing fairly drastic if it is to is Harry Hopkins's job to spend to it. When he talks the whole which is to save the souls of not sistance. Statistics, brought into succeed. For that reason the £60,000,000 a
thing seems so easy.
far short of 12,000,000 Ameri- play in the W.P.A. offices, have can men and women.
shown that industry can absorb That is Harry Hopkins' great that number; and so that same
year among a
obvious Japanese endeavour to flock of people who would other- prejudice the Brussels parley wise die of starvation in the land heavy responsibilities which lie He is young, and to the hefore it commences. appears
short-sighted and ill-advised. of plenty, he has devised and is on him he seems to bear the dream. It won't all come true, number is thrown back into the It must be presumed that Japan; constantly devising ways and same sort of objective relation but it will come a great deal market.
is prompted in this policy by the fact that the powers have failed means of creating work
for us an astro-physicist bears to nearer realisation than almost to take any firm stand in the which he can pay a fair wage. the space continuum. past when she has adventured in China. It is probable that as a dule. That, he thinks, is He will not hand out money Tokyo holds the opinion that if mediation can be thwarted the to degrade the human spirit and intervention of western nations to rot away the heart. in the affairs of the Far East. will be effectively
possibly. for ever.
checked-
***
Just in any other of the dreams which Such social insecurity is one
not much more. terested and knowledgeable; and fill the heads of what is per- of the two weak spots in the haps the most remarkable and Works Progress Administration: But all that is merely because
outstanding federal administra- the other is its inability to reach he is so fluent and speaks go Washington.
tion ever got together
far down and help those who in
are beyond redemption-that frankly. Acinally-and you only
enormous stratum of hopeless existence whose measures is not yet even known.
Harry Hopkins would like to
For the system by which we, think about this when you aro Already his mark is across the At least three major powers, in this country, support our un going down in the elevator after face of the continent. It touches however, are going to Brussels with n fairly determined air. employed ho has the most pro you have left him-the WPA, almost every outlet of human The United States' presence found 'contempt.
is the mainstay of his life and energy: Intellectual labour and there and the very positive stand, taken by the President of that
He told me so in bitter words, the, passion of his nature; and manual labour: from the higher do something about them, but great republic in his recent outflaying the cheap premium he cats it and breathes it and aesthetics to the buildings of he only has an income of £60,- line of foreign policy, increases which we pay against revolt; sleeps it and drinks it; and if sewers-everywhere and in 000,000 a year. And that's all the hope of the supporters of and; by paying, degrade the just now and then, he likes to every occupation his collective security that at last
something is about to be done. spirit of those who receive their play politica a shade too much, After dismal failures on the weeldy dolc.
written.
part of the League of Nations, there is a chance that a group of
For money received Harry
that is merely a recreation from which he returns refreshed.
the
Not merely for the
nations outside the Lengue, but Hopkins thinks that work should
name is there is to it.
But that his name means The Federal Theatre-perhaps something in the vast poverty.
most extraordinary mani- belts is the United States is cer festation of dramatic vitality tain. Indeed, should Roosevelt ever known-came into being run a third time, and should he was founded, may sake of work but for the sake of professor and amateur sailor; Children in every State stand will perhaps have meant the dif- He looks like a mixture of because he signed a cheque, win, the work of Harry Hopkins shoulder the responsibility which rightly belongs to Geneva, preserving sclf-respect; and for and the description will do as tho chance of being healthier ference between success No-one will cavil at that develop that reason he will take an well as any. From his profes. citizens because of the schools failure. ment. The vehicle's shape and endless trouble to see that, so sional side comes a full imagi, and homes and swimming baths colour make no difference
defending the principles
which it
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long as it safely reaches destination.
on be done.
and
That's a heavy responsibility,
its far as his limited means allow, nation tempered by caution: which his enterprise has called but Harry Hopkins bears it very
cách mạn and woman on his from the other a sense of the into reality.
well.