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South America's Failure.
In his address to the American Historical Association at Toronto, Professor Bolton of the Univer- sity of California spoke of South America as the "boom" continent)
HERE. THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Novel Writing at 6 am. Mr. O'Malley was then re- employed at the Foreign Office. Ha le a man of parts: a bee farmer In his spare time and a profound student of China, in which country! he has served. His career has been' aided by a talented wife.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1933..
RUSSIA'S NEW "BLACK
COUNTRY"
THE GRIM CITY OF MUD HUTS
250,000 PEOPLE OF 30 NATIONS
en-
Diplomacy is an expensive job. The O'Malleya are not rich. To
[AGNITOGORSK Russia's giant workers. Indeed, only three things supplement their income Mrs. MAGNITOGORSK start could induce a sane person to stop O'Malley made a resolution: to rise to create the largest iron and steel there-better food, creative every morning at six to write
works in the world; it is a human thusiasm and downright force. All novel.
problem of the kind which the So- of these inducomants are, operative,
to be better fed than new industrial centres.
Here are nearly 250,000 people place I visited. It is of thirty nationalities camping on high spots" of the Plan, and is land that has never before support therefore carefully nursed.
any other
one of the
The
Six weeks ago a first novel ap-vieta are facing in almost all their Magnitogorsk cortainly appeared peared under the name of "Peking Plenic," by Ann Bridge. It was an Instant success. It won the At lantic Monthly prizeh 10,000 dollars in America. It is to be filmed..
Ann Bridge is Mrs. O'Malley. Your Daily Smile.
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TOO DIFFICULT. A new metal, tongher and more pllable than steel, Is "called phor- entisarconventuslībna. But not by
me.
Dear, Oh, Dear!
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ed more than a handful of Cossacks. usual inequality in again apparent How do they live and work? here, however, there being four What forces have drawn them from different food-grades among the en- every corner of the Union to this gineers and techniciana alone. grim and desolate place, where you Enthusiasm is a powerful driving- can already fancy that the low hills force among the upper-class work- are slag-henps, a Black Country in ers, who often feel a sense of per- the making?
sonal triumph in the building of this huge plant on the virgin steppe. Magnitogorsk was the only place
Peasants' Trek
At the station you may watch the
new
workers arriving. Some of where I came into actual contact them step from the International with compulsory labour, though no car and drive away in droshkies or attempt is made to disguise the One of the Intest designs in cars. They are specialists and fact that it exists all over the Union. worrien's 'huts resembles a coronet responsible workers," bound for There is both convict labour and in nearly all respects
...one of Magnitogorsk's three or four forced "kulak" labour here. There especially the price.
hotels.
are not many convicts; I saw a gang
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Answer to Correspondent,
Others clamber out of the "hard" of about "twenty of them coming waggons, dragging after them aaway from the mine, a down-at-heel No, Ernest, U.S. docs not official-fantastic assortment of bundles that and dispirited lot. I was told that ly mean Unde Shylock.
MALE ORDER.
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One producer is insisting on A continent with great quantities men to take leading parts in his of foods and raw material to sell pantomimes this year. The time is and immense reserves available coming when principal boya will
be boys! can never want for customers to bid against one another. But it must have stable governments and improved transportation. The airplane and the airship are indispensable to the development of South America.
The Chemical Revolution.
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In broad daylight a man entered a London office and stole a clack By some amazing mischance mem- era of the staff, were not watching the thing.
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His XXX-cellency.
I read that Herr von Wolthen- stein, a former ambassador, is now To the credit of the chemist, a successful brewery director.
Facts You Did Not Know.
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contain their worldly possessions, they were mostly convicted of, theft. These are the unskilled labourere. and crimes of violence. With them are their families, aged The kulaks-dispossessed peasants men and women quila incapable of whose only crime was having owned work, infants a few weeks old, many more land than their neighbours, or having at some period of their lives children.
Most of these people are peasants, employed hired labour-form a clad in immerse sheepskin coats, large and growing section of the unbelievably filthy, their legs wrap-workers here. ped' in layer after layer of raga, At the time of my visit the man- their feet shod with slippers of agement's books, turned up for my plaited fibre or with felt boots. benefit, showed that of 70,300 actual
No one has asked them to come. workers in Magnitogorsk, 9,183 were But somewhere, perhaps a thou-kulake. With their families, of & far more sand miles away or more, the course, they form. word went round that there was numerous body. good food to be had here at
Forced Labour. Their numbers are being aug- Magnitogorsk.
Passing almost daily.
some
So the peasants left their collec-mented of the future. He stressed the
tivised forms, or deserted from the through the eastern outskirts of the facts that it is one of the great be it said that he never took his
Don Basin mines, or walked out of town late one afternoon I met a' of kulaka entering. The reservoirs of raw material and is infinitesimal, indestructible, in-
their tractor works. They sewed up column attracting foreign capital and divisible pellet of an atom too
all their belongings in shrouds of group consisted of about a hundred coarse linen, they packed a wooden people, men, women, and children in heavy immigration. In Argen-seriously. It was useful in build- tina there are, to-day a million ing up molecules, and the mole-
box with all the food they could find, armis, trudging along with a mount- the station. There ed guard front and rear. Their Italian immigrants, in Brazil cules in turn were necessary in For apariment dwellers a piano and went to
their bundles in the destination was a series of barracks 600,000. Among the foreign explaining how chemical reactions has been designed having keyboard they lay on born in the latter country are occur. Ernst Mach, who has had and pedals that fold into the base, yard, maybe for three or four days, specially erected to accommodate 500,000 Portuguese and 250,000 such a powerful influence on enabling it to be moved through until at last there was room in a them.
train going towards the Urals.
A military commandant hes Spaniards. In Brazil there are theoretical physicists of our day, narrow "doorways.
Perhaps they spent four or fiva charge of the barracks, but, once German colonies, substantial and hoped that atoms would dis
Using a radio tube to develop days in trains, and more than a drafted to their jobs, the kulaks prosperous. Descendants of the appear from physics and chemis
are not guarded, I was informed.. foreign-born fill many political try because they are like all the sounds, a Frenchman has in-week waiting at junctions. But at offices in Argentina. Pointing out substances, imaginary things, vented a device that imitates the last they have reached Magnito- A kulak's sentence. usually ruins that Hispanic America is wide without any real existence." And tones of nearly every instrument gerak, tough and stalld after an or- for five years, though In
deal that would have killed any but cases, during the carlier period of“ open" to European settlers, Pro Ostwald, one of the great chem- used in an orchestra,
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Russians.
the anti-kulak "drive," the term fessor Bolton hazarded the pre- ista of our time, occupied himself
An international radio organiza-
Self-Made Homes .
seems to have been shorter. He is diction that the time is not far for years in trying to prove that
tion has estimated that more than off when it will have a larger chemistry does not need them one half of the world's more than
Yes, there is work for them here; sent as far away from his native vil- population than the United Now it seems that the atom is!
there is nowhere for them to live. sometimes accompanied by his States.
James Bryce estimated one of the few things of which 32,000,000 receiving sets are in the Magnitogorsk is insatiable. But lage as possible, sometimes alone,
United States. the Italian population of Argen we can be sure in a cosmos that
They must go out and build thein- whole family. Though he will be free from forced labour at the end. tina at almost one-third of the has become an illusion. Not the
From booths erected along side-elves a home. MER whole. Uruguay 8 25 per cent. pellet-like stom of old, to be sure, walks. in an English city persons
Along the railway line you may of five years, he is forbidden ever to foreign-born, Italians and Span-but
atom with а
all get a first glimpse of the kind of return to his home. can make telephone calls to
Kulaks work for wages, at piece iards predominating. If South dense, massive nucleus sur- other parts of the country or buy home they build. A hole is dug in
by. America is to become the "boom" rounded
electrons,
stamps and mail letters. continent, it is the traders who atom which is therefore not will shape its destiny. Three the ultimate particle of matter, fourths is tropical. With that but one which can be utterly de : immense territory commercial re-stroyed, if what Jeans and lations are not so close and pro- Eddington tell us about the pro- The CP.S. Iner Empress of frames of windows and a door are that they get the lowest scale of htable as with the temperate part ceases within stars is true. If Russia will leave Hong Kong at inserted; a few beams support more rations which are often insufficient of South America, which fur- we are to explain the properties 1 am, on Friday, February 17, turves to make a roof, and a hole is when there is a large family to be
*** maintained. nishes three-fourths of the ex-of hydrogen, iron or any of the arriving at Shanghai on Sunday and left to act as chimney. ports and takes an even greater ninety-two elements, we must do Yokohama on Friday, February 24. It is in such mud huts, half below ground, that, nearly, a third of the proportion of the imports. About sa in terms of electrons, although 80 per cent. of the exports of the nucleus around which the The bulletin issued by the Medi-workers at Magnitogorsk now live.. South America consist of coffee, electrons are grouped is more cal authorities show that 4,483 gen- Most of the people who do not live wheat and wheat flour, meats, important than the atom as a eral cases and 64 maternity cases in these mud huts are accommodat- corn, nitrates, linseed, metals, whole. It is clear that there is were treated at seven New Terried in wooden dwellings plastered with a thick coating of mud and wool, hides and cane sugar. It no longer a sharp cleavage be tory Hospitals. has been estimated that the pam- tween chemistry and physics. A
cement to keep out the cold. Ask pas of Argentina and Uruguay new science la in the making, a At a meeting of the Finance no questions about sanitation. It is
the enough to say that Magnitogorsk's moned to produce 21 per cent of the ex-science that asks itself searching Committee which followed. port wheat and flour of the world, questions. Why is water wet Legislative Council meeting and at medical officer, inadequately sup- Japanese and a Korean in the 66 per cent, of the corn and 72 Why does it cling to some sur which the Colonial Secretary (Hon. plied with druge, is waging a convicinity of Gloucester Road at per cent of the flaxseed. The faces and not to others? What Mr. W. T. Southorn) presided, stant battle with epidemics. about 4 o'clock this morning.
The Korean, Taol Pang-yan, 85," grass landu of Rio Negro and is a solution? Exactly what hap-votes totalling $2,614 were approve Over: the brow of a hill, away Chubut and the moist plains of pens when hydrogen and oxygen ed. Patagonia support millions of combine to form water? Leap-
an
News In Brief.
the ground, perhaps twelve foot rates, like anyone else. But, being square, perhaps slightly larger, and unskilled, they naturally receive the about three feet deep. Then the lowest rates and are drafted to the turves and earth are piled up round least remunerative fobs. The the hole to form walls; rough worst feature of their sentence is
WANCHAI FIGHT.
Korean Injured By Japanese,
Police at Wanchai were sum- n fight between two
from the smoke of the blast suffered the worst of the ex- furnaces, the Socialist City" is changes and was removed to the Government Civil Hospital with in- One day all these mud huts and juries to his face and legs.
The two Japanese were taken
YOUTH KNOCKED DOWN BY
cattle and sheep and provide a ing electrons, X-ray glimpses of Journal of Chemical Physics, a rising large part of the exports of beef, atomic patterns, the wanderinge publication which will prove of mutton and wool to manufactur-of mutilated atoms in solutions immense value to students in all all the varminous wooden buildings ing regions of the world. Tem- traversed by electric energy it parts of the world. But auch is will be swept away, and the pro- into custody, pending investiga- perate South America still has is with these, among other the irresistible onward sweep of letariat of Magnitogorak will live in tions. immense empty spaces for culti-things, that the practitioner of science that the birth of a neces-five-storey flats of brick or stone.
Lure of Better Food. vation and grazing. The whole the new science must concern sary organ of education cannot east coast is accessible to cargo himself. The fundamentals of wait upon the return of prosper- Several of these buildings are al- ships. Good ports on the west both chemistry and physics have ity. To the chemical physicist ready tenanted. I visited one of const are few, and are not well changed. A revolution is in pro who will drink at this new spring them, and found it disappointingly served by railroads Neverthegreas which must result in a the depression may be memor- reminiscent of poorer-class dwellings While driving a motor-bûs, in less, Peru furnishes 20 per cent. nicer control of matter and new able because it was then that in capitalist lands; atone floors, Queen's Road Central yesterday. In. of the world's copper and 72 per compounds of unheard-of-proper The Journal was founded by a dark corridors, h single bath room Wankam knocked down & Chinese cent. of its vanadium; Bolivia 28 tles. Where is the chemical group of scientists who had faith shared by half-a-dozen flate. Still, male, Fung Cheung, 16, who was per cent of its tin. Petroleum physicist to learn the funda in their methods and who were it was Paradise compared with a being chased carrosa the road-by - ani, Indian” constable near the districts in the north are being mentals? Physicists and chem imbued with the courage and mud hut. -
Conditions being what they are, Western Market rapidly opened, Venezuela now ists Join in swering with the enthusiasm that always mark standing seeded in production, creation of a new periodical, The high adventure into the unknown. Magnitogorak naturally loses many The youth sustained injuries ta
his right foot.
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