THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, Friday, February 4, 1938.
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Be it known that though she has never been a beauty, she has brains, is vivacious and witty.
Before she married she already had a famous name, plenty of money, and an enviable social position. She is not, and never was, a snob. She married her cousin, handsome Frank- lin Delano Roosevelt, when she was quite young.
It was a love match, for she had many sultors more, eligible than young Franklin. She pinned her faith in him as a politician, and at ali times she has been his best
successful career she hos been a great stimulating power.
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MRS. ROOSEVELT'S life has
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America's resumption of closer contact with international politics has brought into the news both President Roosevelt and his wife, whose personality clearly stamps itself on White House affairs,
Here is a vigorous sketch of her
By
VAHDAH BORDEUX author of "Benito Musso- lini, the Man," "Eleonora
How smart are you?
"Well, we shall be quite a family party," he replied; "there's my birthday.
George was asked who was going to dine with him on his father's brother-in-law, my brother's father-in-law, my father }- In's brother-in-law, and my brother-in-law's father-in-law." It afterwards transpired that poor George was going to dine all alone, and yet his statement was true.
If you can't work it out the answer is in columns six and
seven.
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As chairman of a manufacturing company, George dividest £233 in Christmas bonuses as follows: The manager received £20 more than the assistant manager, £83 more than the deputy assistant manager, and £71 more than the chief cashier. How much did they each receive? Answer below.
of
Perils Polar Flying
DUSSIAN scientists
ma-
Another funding and another. at- tempt to off were mode with
Duse," and many other books Rrooned on a rapidly dis- practically the same result, and it
in which she has given pene- trating studies of famous people.
was not until Wilkins, with the aid integrating ica floo 600 of a plece of drift-wood, mannged miles from the North Pole to give the necessary push to the skls and hastily climb Into the will be rescued by airmen. machine before it was too late, that Just what do those few words they were able to get off in safety. There are many other difficulties, mean. They mean that Rus- but they can be overcome by skill. cles, some of which were good, some sian airmen will, if they succeed Navigation presents many problems poor. The money made from writ-carry out flights which, because alace in certain parts of the Arclic ing also went to charity.
of the magnitude of the work the magnetle attraction is so slight that the compass is practically use- "Would She Spoak ?" - they are essaying, will be as less. In addition, while flying along historic 19 Bleriot's cross- certains courses the change of varia-
may be GO THE poorer classes heard a channel journey or the Allock- tion
great that the corrections to the compass may have great deal about Mrs. Brown conquest of the Atlantic; to be made at the rate of one When Roosevelt was inaugurated Roosevelt. They began to admice for they are faced with difficul- degree e minute. In this ense die in 1033 the depression Was full her. She was the right kind of LOEVENSTEIN. On 3rd February, swing, and the new President's wife woman, took care of her home, herties just as great in spite of the use of a sun compass is of treat
1938, at Prague, Czechoslovakia, had to watch her step if she wanted
husband, and yet found time to speak improvement in modern equip as this Polar rescue flight is under- · ·
help, and when a long flight such Doctor Karel Loevenstein, Preal-to keep the people's faith. She had to the public. dent of the Skoda Works. (By always been democratic. She be
taken, it may be necessary to check cable).
Would she speak to them? Letters
Polar Byng is very different the position by sun observations with came more so.
poured into the White House inviting affair from ordinary flying, for its a sextant, particularly H, owing to the First Lady to speak at rich clubs, success depends flest and foremost on bad weather, it has been impossible at poor clubs. She accepted all in the preliminary work carried out on lo establish the determination · of vitations to speak at clubs, no malter
the ground. The difficulties that drift. Fortunately, as has been how unimportant they might be.
confront the Polar Ayer are indeed pointed out by Admiral Byrd, "the In a tweed ruit she would appear many. One of the most formidable air above the Arctic Sen seems on the platform in some slum district of these lies in the low temperatures generally to be without bumps, and for the as willingly as she would turn up in with which he must complete. The so affords a steady platform evening regalin in a smart club. She type of engine which is suitable for observer," This, however, is not the felt that she belonged to the people the more temperale routes may not case when Byling over the rugged of the United States, and if a word give the same service In colder and mountainous lands and lalands from her could help them she would f climates. Many of these problems which in places border the Arctic not deny them that word.
can, of course be minimised by the Sea, avoidance of landings actually within the frozen regions.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938.
JAPAN SHOWS
HER HAND
She drove her own cor around Washington, and atill does. She "hops a 'plane" for New York or Chicago, to speak at some club, and gets home in time for dinner. When possible she goes to New York by train, in an ordinary Pullman (once I sat next to her she was knitting most of the way).
Mrs. Roosevelt walks to appoint- ments when she has time, steps into a shop if she happens to see a frock she likes, tries it on, and if it fits takes it along under her arm. She the ready a great deal, and docs family .mending. Her knitting, which serves as a means of concen- tration, covers garments for the en- tire family.
The world at large and the Japanese public in particular have been clamouring for some . Sandy Powell
time for information as to Joe Peterson Japan's policy on the mainland Joe Peterson of Asia, have been demanding For Charity
something positive in the way
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The Soviet flyers must accomplish
non-stop flight. All the
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* The real solution of navigation problems for the rescue lights to the Arctic will be in the extensive SHE brought back the theatre
use of wireless. The directional- business to Washington by
pro fading or homing apparatus on insisting that the President attended blems connected with warming-up board the deroplane will enable the all good plays. Washington is to the engines before fight begins, course to be set on any given point, New York what Manchseter or Leeds clearing suitable run-aways, empty is to London, a city in which to trying the oll on landing to avoid freez- out new plays and one of the main lag-these will trouble them. A THE "VERY IDEA”. cities for touring companies. For Inading is necessary, so they have to through all the years the Washington theaires had be prepared to go been closed. All American actors routine familiar to the men who have reason to be grateful to Mrs. daily fly the air routes of Arctic Roosevelt.
Canada and Siberlo. The difficulties of landing on an unknown terrain in in the dark makes them almost in- surmountable.
SNOBBERY..
bad weather are serious, and tAT THE
Much of the Polar pack-ice which
Gracie Fields of a statement by the Cabinet,
IN 1934 scarcely anybody in the United States had any Gracie Fields in place of the merely negative money. Those who could, handed over funds for relief, Mrs. Roose- and unenlightening reiteration velt began broadcasting; sticking her Vera Lyn
other people's business, that the invaders had no terri-nose into
She is emphatic in her talks when Vera Lyn
the subject is vitally interesting to torial ambitions in China; and many people sald."
her. Conditions in the United States to take the Band now they have got it. The in- Whot right had she
money out of professionals' mouths? have been chaotic, but she has never censed to believe that in time they formation given to the Diet yes-No right. Except that her ideas on
will right themselves and a new type terday by Government spokes-youth, and the lack of ambition in
woman rise from the American youth, were sounder than of man and men may not be the full story, the ideas of the professionals who ha but it is something for Japan's had gone before her. And she dared By her words and the way she con- by the pressure of the tides into
Tuntastic ridgea and to say what she thought. The money ducted her own life Eleanor Roose-forming a jagged mass through which protagonists to meditate and she made from broadcasting
velt helped to convince the poore is nin
nlmost Impossible to drive a classes that their country was not a antagonists to masticate. For turned over to charity. some it will prove tough chew. Mrs. Roosevelt
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covers the Arctic Ocean is tremen- MARKET
dously rough; huge blocks of ice weighing thousands of ions are forced
to court
bad place, and that the President, ledge, let alone land an acroplane. man like To make a forced landing amid such wrote magazine her husband, was just
destruction, and envious said: "She other men, a man who worked herd-chnos is to never had any articles published un-er than most to attain his position, a & forced landing usually comes when tif she became the President's wife, man working for them and in their stretches of smooth ice,
Icast desired. There which means that it is only her name and not the value of the articlea which makes them interesting editors."
Interests.
She had her reward last year, when the poor unanimously voted for
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Bearing in mind that Tokyo has trumpeted that phrase, "no territorial ambitions," across the world, the outline of her policy now disclosed comes as some-generation was inspired by her arti- Her Husband's Health thing of a shock to those who interpreted
her
protestations
Whatever the reason, the coming
sometimes U
are, however,
with a covering of snow, on which it
„SHELLFISH......ARE. PRAWNS IN THE HANDS OF FATE
By Eddle ("Stinker") Kelly
OVERNMENT, we notice, is calling tenders
is safe to land an aeroplane, even for the construction of a if it is equipped with wheels instead new Central Market .
of skis. But even if a forced land-
ing is accomplished safely, death in A three-storeyed cement the form of slow starvation may building will be erected. await the airmen, and this is where
One floor for the fish, one floor FRANKLIN Delano Roosevelt the importance of a proper under- is Ва she may want something more.
owes his second term as standing of Polar exploration literally. But perhaps they will If she considers her industrial half of them women, who, because menace both to its pilots and to fruit and vegetables. not find fault with the Tokyo invasion of North China some-
President to his poor veters, nearly essential. A single neroplane is a for the meat and a floor for the We can but deplore this in- of their faith in Mrs. Roosevelt, voted those who may be forced to set out programme, after all, for there thing of benefit to that country,
in unavailing and hazardous attempts troduction of snobbishness to our for her husband.
But with proper is no indication that that Gov-
The world never knew of the many to effect a rescue. and merely a friendly gesture on
established down-and-out clubs Mrs. Roosevelt bases
along the route, food, ernment intends to set the
addressed;
of the her own part, it is more than
equipped acroplanes properly
THEY DID IT ON PORPOISE never thought Japanese flag flying over half of likely that as yet China and the
and trained crews ready to set out The fish department, which many private worries she had.over China. It merely proposes to world have had no
her family, nor the constant fear of at a moment's notice to bring assis-
will take the lower floor, is inkling of her husband breaking under the tance to the stricken flyers, the pro-
justified in complaining that blem is a control the industries, to some what indemnity she considers strain of office.
different one. The a very
Government has no Sole. extent, make it a field for the her due. Presumably that de-
airmen have only to await the arrl-
Cabbages and cauliflowers, thrown val of relict; they are not cultivation of raw cotton for pends on the length and cost of
back entirely on their own resources. nestling coyly against peaches on Japan's mills, and possibly ex-this "defensive" war die wages.
Supposing the trouble can be set the Peak floor, may even refuse ploit the mineral deposits, while The end, unfortunately, is by no
tight and the acroplane la once more to be served with roast beef or in trim to take the ale, the difficultles ing some of her mysterious trips to taking complete command of means in sight. Tho' campaign New York and other great cities she of taking off may be so serlots us Baveleys. transportation, communication, apparently is about to be CX- hearts of the depressed pont warnen; with an acroplane equipped with was instilling a new faith into the to make the attempt impossible; thus power production and the salt tended.
It never knew how, in a sincere effort wheels it may be quite impossible
And if he has to rely on being industry. There may be some
to help the needy, she was paving on certain types of ice. It may even be necessary to cut special tracks the way to her husband's re-election
across the ice along which the wheels served with roast spuds, the in 1930.
throne must run, while sometimes an acro- mutton might just as well close. The wolnan behind his knows all about it, and while the plane on skis cannot be started ex- up his chop. world is questioning she to smiling cept with the assistance of a ground enigmatically.
argument as to what constitutes As for the foreign interests "territorial ambitions." But concerned, their principals can there can be little doubt that the only wait and hope. State- occupied area of North China is controlled Japancso industry is to be treated as a conquered going to compete with them in state, a sort of vassal of Japan. China; there is no doubt of that.
Even Shanghai will eventually j This may be the "compensa-feel the weight of such rivalry, tion" the Foreign Minister, Mr and in this respect the spokes- Koki Hirota, refers to in his men in the Diet have declared latest speech in the Dlet. Ic
"The charging chieftaina heedless where they go,
It did not know how she watched over his health while she was amil-
the bright side. The world never realised that dur-
us, and encouraging the depressed to
look on
HOW SMART WERE
erew.
Rumps of beef will feel that their social existence is at Steak.
HIDEOUS SCANDAL Readers will realise with some that Government Such a difficulty, indeed, befell Bir
significance Hubert Wilkins on his epoch-making
It was found intends to separate the calf from. fight to Spitsbergen. Impossible to sinrt the aeroplane the strawberries,
If this hideous acandal is not unless someone was prepared to turning over Wiltins The answer to the puzzle above in give it a shove and so with the
propellers hustly gave the machine the neces George was a widower, with a daugh- sary starting impetus while the pilot
that:-
YOU?
stopped, who can blame the lobsters for turning Red,
An onion, as it pleads to be.
the mid-levela..
for and winter. George and his father opened up the engines. But with allowed to return to its old love,
was also a widower) mnested chilled and numb hands, covered the tripe on
Wilkins daughter by a former husband). George with thick, clumsy mint would surely bring tears to the
found it impossible to
hiaters (the wife of George having a
became his
brother-in-
brother married George' the machine. Clinging on for dear eyes of oven the most callous As a matter of fact, this whole stepdaughters thus George became his life, he felt the aeroplane gathering Government official, brother's father-in-law. George's father-speed until at last is rore Into the
subject of the Central Market George's In-law married
later; and alr, while he dangled helplessly. George thus became his father-in-law's brother-in-lKW, George's brother-in-But hanging on merely meant the. JAW married George's daughter, whereby greater fall when at lost his fingers. Caorge become his brother-in-law should compel him to let go, and father-in-law. He
pointed out that compensation Japan would not have "to pay was not to be obtained in money excessive attention" to the at-ho alone, but could be collected in titude of foreign powers. kind. "Japan may study pre- cedents on the point to dechile the form of indemnity to be demanded," he said. Failing a cash settlement by China's Government, as the party held. responsible for Japan's expensive campaign, it may be that Tokyo will be satisfled with the control of the industries mentioned by her spokesmen. But of course
As often striking- friend as
they strike foc,
And breeding quarrels for the
bivouac
And Indian wars along the
Potomac."
therefore
amolle to the high heavens.
We would rather hear no moro
himself with great presence of mind he let about it.. In fact, wo wish that Blled all the four characters mentioned. himself drop at once and fortunately the Central Market, like this
Answer to the second problem let- geil into soft anow. As his co-pilot subject, was closed. Manager. £34 65. tant
£74 a deputy assistant manager,
manager,
241 9. chief cashier, £23 5.
circled over the snow he saw his As we say on the Penk: companion standing, a forlorn speck, Raspberries to your poor fish."
on the white expanse.