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D'AZEVEDO,--At the French Hos- pital, at 1 A.M., on 3rd November, 1937, Manuel Jose D'Azevedo, aged 74 years. The Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day.
N
PHILIP JORDAN in another of his stories
in
his
recent visit
to
of mon he met 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
L
with hung modern pictures, is the office of Harry Lloyd [Hopkins,
who spends £60,000,000 every year; and wishes he had a whole lot
more.
And if Harry Hopkins, curl- ing his long legs round chairs and tables, were not the most re-
SHEWAN.--On Wednesday, 3rd markable of the contents of his November, 1937, at the French office, the pictures which de Hospital, Causeway Bay, Mr. E.
A. Shewan of North View corate Bungalow, beloved wife
it would be. Not for is in-
of their quality, which Willjarn Shewan (deceased), Funeral will pass the Monument different; not for their imagi-
ht
p.m. to-morrow.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1037.
DOING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS JOB The idea of collective secur-
very welcome. It
ideal and
has been
position. All that is required is
native conception and originality,
which are almost totally lacking, but because they are the symbol of a dream come truc.
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They were painted by unem- ployed artists, and they were
task board.
From his head, and from those of a devoted staff, ideas 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.
nor
Neither the jeers of economic royalists
their lobbying against him are going to stop him. He has the inestimable advantages of not being a cynic and of possessing an integrity rare in any public life.
His drawback-as I have al- ready said-is a taste for play- be that ing politics. It may he plays them because of his unalterable conviction-which I share that there is no man in the States who could do the
If he knows that the art of
And he has one other quality: ruthlessness. Sometimes it mani- fests itself in ways that make ing system of the dolo has some- one believe that our own degrad- thing to be said for it, after all. He can, at the stroke of a pen.
paid for out of Government books gets the sort of work knowledge that nothing worth job half so well as he; and that he is not willing to jeopardise funds not because they were which is most congenial to them, while can be accomplished with- good but because their artists To treat each individual unem- out daring and without, some his position for anything that ployed person merely as a poten- times, throwing caution over is not 100 per cent. worth fight- ity, which has seemed to have
were unemployed.
ing for. been almost lost of late, has:
The agency through which tial producer whatever
He talks fiercely but without come suddenly buck into pro- minence. With the adoption of they were purchased is the same may next come to hand would
he politics is compromise, he does confidence. Occasionally measures by Great Britain and agency as that which purchases be as abhorrent to him as the gesture-so that he gives you France. 'assisted by other powers, to patrol the Mediter-the labour and time and talents idea of pay for no work.
for compromise. That such
an outlook im- whips his spectacles on and off: not the less despise the necessity
a leg and ranean against pirate submar- of America's vast hordes of un- ines, the principle reappeared in employed men and women. It is mensely complicates his task occasionally uncoils the political scheme. It was called the Works Progress Ad- is obvious. The human element, wraps it round something else; shown that it is no impossible ministration; and the head of it, the psychological element, is as but he doesn't move his head. that international its guiding spirit and creator, much a part of his book-keeping So that, like a man paralysed police action is a practical pro-is young 47 years old Harry and card-index system as the from the waist up, there is some But the unreality, of course, the will and the determination Hopkins, the man with the long names and addresses of those thing unreal about him.
for whom it is his job to find and the courage to put it into legs. operation.
Harry Hopkins believes that work; for he refuses to treat is not that at all: what le un- With
the meeting of the without work an unemployed the individual as a unit of the real is to be a man who gets lay off relief, as and when he things done in a land where thinks fit, as many people as he to chooses. Sixty thousand, one powers in Brussels, which Japan
everybody prefers talk has refused to attend, the world man or woman can never be a
It isn't while talking with
action; and who allows no hundred thousand, may wake find will take another step in the useful citizen or a human being
one morning and direction of collective effort to with the minimum of dignity Harry Hopkins that you appre
however powerful, to up enemy, preserve peace. The object of the meeting is to discover some which almost alone raises him ciate the magnitude of his task deflect him from his purpose, that they have no means of sub-. means of mediation in the Far from the animal. And since it or the devotion which he brings which is to save the souls of not sistance: Statistics, brought into East war, but if mediation is not is Harry Hopking's job to spend to it. When he talks the whole
far short of 12,000,000 Ameri- play in the W.P.A. offices, have shown that industry can absorb accepted the powers will be £60,000,000 a year among a thing seems so easy. faced with the necessity of de-flock of people who would other-
That is Harry Hopkins' great that number; and so that same ciding upon some other course wise die of starvation in the land of intervention. It would seem of plenty, he has devised and is heavy responsibilities which lie dream. It won't all come true, number is thrown back into the the alternative must be some- constantly devising ways and on him he seems to bear the but it will come a great deal market. thing fairly drastic if it is to means of creating work for
same sort of objective relation nearer realisation than almost succeed. For that reason the which he can pay a fair wage. obvious Japanese endeavour to He will not hand out money as an astro-physicist bears to any other of the dreams which prejudice the Brussels parley as a dole. That, he thinks, is the space continuum. Just in- oil, the heads of what is per- of the two weak spots in the before it commences appear to degrade the human spirit and terested and knowledgeable; and haps the most remarkable and Works Progress Administration: short-sighted and
It must be presumed that Japan
ill-advised. to rot away the heart.
is prompted in this policy by the
fact that the powers have falled For the system by which we,
maso.
He is young, and to the
not much more.
can men and women.
to take any firm stand in the in this country, support our un- he is so fluent and speaks so Washington. past when she has adventured employed ho has the most pro- frankly. Actually-and you only in China. It is probable that found contempt. Tokyo holds the opinion that if mediation can be thwarted the
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Such social insecurity is one
outstanding federal administra- the other is its inability to reach in far down and help those who ever got together But all that is merely because tion
are beyond redemption-that enormous stratum of hopeless Already his mark is across the
existence whose measures is not think about this when you are face of the continent. It touches
yet even known. of human He told me so in bitter words, going down in the elevator after almost every outlet
Harry "Hopkins would like to intervention of western nations flaying the cheap premium you have left him-the W.P.A. energy: 'intellectual labour and In the affairs of the Far East which we pay against revolt is the mainstay of his life and manual labour: from the higher do something about them, but will be effectively checked and, by paying, degrade the
spirit of those who receive their the passion of his nature; and aesthetics to the buildings of he only has an income of £60, in 000,000 a year. And that's all possibly for ever.
he eats it and breathes it and seivera-overywhere and At least three major powers, weekly dole. however, are going to Brussels For money received Harry sleeps it and drinks it; and if, every occupation his name is there is to it, with a fairly determined air. Hopkins thinks that work should just now and then, he likes to written. The United States presence be done. Not merely for the play politics a shade too much, there and the very positive standsake of work but for the sake of
But that his name means
The Federal Theatre-perhaps something in the vast poverty
taken by the President of that preserving self-respect; and for that is merely a recreation from the most extraordinary mani- belts in the United States is cer- great republic in his recent out-that reason he will take an which he returns refreshed. line of foreign policy, increases endless trouble to see that, so
the hope of the supporters of far as his limited means allow, collective security that at Inst each man and woman something is about to be done.
on his
After dismal failures, on tho
festation of dramatic vitality tain. Indeed, should Roosevelt ever known-came into being run a third time, and should ha He looks like a mixture of because he signed a cheque. win, the work of Harry Hopkins professor and amateur sailor: Children in every State stand will perhaps have meant the dif- part of the League of Nations, which rightly belongs to Geneva, and the description will do as the chance of being healthier ference between success there is a chance that a group of No-one will cavil at that develop well as any. From his profes- citizens because of the schools failure. nations outside the League, but ment. The vehicle's shape and sional side comes a full imagi- and homes and swimming baths
difference on colour make no
defending the
principles which it was founded, may long as it safely
responsibility 'destination.
shoulder
the
and.
ALL
reachos
That's a heavy responsibility, its nation tempered by eention: which his enterprise has called but Harry Hopkins bears it very
well. into reality, from the other a sense of the
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