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National Gallery Controversy.

The secret of Lord Lee of Fare- ham's resignation from the chair- manship of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery was well kept.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1983.

AMERICA'S ARMY OF BOY VAGABONDS

FROM COAST TO COAST IN SEARCH OF WORK

...

AN ENDLESS TRAIL

(By Martin Moore.)

To those aware of the history of the relations between the trustees and the permanent staff of the Gallery, it was, however, evident from the beginning that the differ- ences would not stop with the re- signations of Mr. Collins Baker, the keeper of the Gallery, and Mr. Lamar, in Western Colorado, "has

decreed that the Ormsby-Gore, one of the trustees.,

Lamar.porary homé of 10,000 such seasonal Some official of the little town of workers.

Legions on the' March.” ↑ But the fat years have gone by, words "County and with them Kansas City's legions

Sir Philip Sassoon, the new chair-Jail" be înscribed on the stone vills of casual labourers. Mostly they man, has, if not a profound know-which stands on a piece of waste have drifted eastwards and north- ledge of the subject, an excellent land off Main-strect. Otherwise wards to the big cities. Thousands of them, with thousands more from

taste in art, and a sensitiveness to

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new ideas and new movements that you might mistake this cosy-looking all parts of the country, went to should help to redeem the National place for the home of one of the Detroit on recent rumours that the Gallery from the charge of dullness. wealthier families among Lamar's Ford plant was to resume full He does not impose his opinions on

jactivity again; but they only 'swell- 4,000 inhabitanta. | his subordinates.

led the ranka of Detroit'sOWN, And, in fact, the gaol does now-workless. adays fulfil the functions of a home

Now the

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The young

seasonal workers of

“New Art" Vagaries. Sir Philip's house in Park-lane is more frequently than those of Kansas City have been replaced by. full of art treasures. Even in his prison. It lodged one evening one a nomadic drift of unemployed from Oxford days he was a collector, and suspected car thief and three young all over the United States. At the few undergraduates were so well-travellers who could not afford even time of my visit more than 700 men equipped with the means to gratify the cheapest of the town's hotels.

and boys were passing through the that taste.

men cannot afford. [city every day. Many of them re- His personal preferences range railway fares either. They drop ceive temporary shelter at the Boys' from the "conversation pieces" of ped off an east-bound freight train Hotel or the Helping Hand Institute. the eighteenth century to the inter-at dusk, and as they had done at No one can find, real work for. ealing "new art” vagaries which so many other towns-sought out them, but here they are able to do Caused surprise as well as admira-the local polico and asked for digging, stonebreaking house demoli

shelter. The policeman conducted tion, haulage work, or some other tion at Lympne.

his visitors to the prison, bade form of unskilled labour in return them goodnight, and locked them for food and adortuitory bed. in.

Your Daily Smile.

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NOW, DOCTORT

Reflection.

But their wander.

Kansas City is a sort of half-way Stolen Train Rides. PRIZE HUSTLER.

house between East and West, a Thus ends another day's journey place where the wanderers can make Within thirty-six hours of being

for three members of America's a few days' halt for food and rest United released from prison a man was The China- Mail. foreign relations of the

States on which the incoming Prezi-stated to have broken into five roving army of workless.. No one before proceeding on their hopeless

Evidently he was only can tell how many hundreds of journey. dent may naturally desire to be fully houses.

thousands like them are drifting to

Nomads Camps. for the making up for lost crime. informed in preparation

and fro across this vast continent,

Here, too, some attempt is made arduous duties which await him.:

victims of the depression. There to stem the drifting tide of youth. There can be none more pressing or "Yes, Dear."

A German scientist has made ajare anything from 11,000,000 to Many of these boys come from good with a closer bearing on the pros perity of the United States than man who will obey all orders 14,000,000 unemployed, and a large homes, impoverished now by un- proportion of these are continually employment. Unwilling to burden In two weeks' time, on March 4, that of the future of War debts pay-mechanically.

So has my wife.

on the move.

their parents, the sons go to seek the recently elected President, ments. The existing system has

According to tentative and incom-work in some neighbouring town, Senators, and Members of the House partially broken down already and

plete estimates by social welfare or only to join at last this homeless of Representatives of the United cannot be restored. Nothing is more Force of Habit

The comedian who tried to goo ganisations, there are more than freemasonry of road and railway. States will take over their duties certain than that it will break down

1200,000 "boys under 21 in the ranks. Sometimes whole families take to and responsibilities. The inter- altogether unless some mutual ar-his wife.

of these vagabonds. Many of them, vagabondage. With the bread- regnum imposed by a constitutional rangement on the lines of the Lau-

leaving school in mid-depression, winner unemployed, the rent months anachronism will have come to an sanne settlement is reached before

A doctor says there's no cure for have never had a job. Until econ in arrear, and no prospect of work end. The affairs of the

June 15. Several Governments in-i country will no longer be in the hands of an cluding that of Great Britain, were love sickness to compare with omic conditions change they never in the home town, they set forth fo Administration which has been en-only able as a matter of fact to work, I don't know: what about will. Yet month after month they the family car.

cross and recross America, stealing ing does not usually last so long as *marriage? phatically repudiated by the meet their obligations to the United

rides on trains, begging fts from the aimless Journey of the un- popular vote and of a Con-States Treasury last December at al

motorists, alceping in gaols and attached man. Eventually' the car gress large numbera of whose cost and by methods which will not

Some men never dream of mend-hostels, searching for food and has to be sold for food, and the members have. been refused bear repetition. That experience

family must find makeshift, shelter ди extension of their man-was the final demonstration of the ing their ways until they're broke work.

In the morning the Lamar police-where it can, date. The new President will have impossibility of the task imposed on

Facts You Did Not

man will unlock the prison door and On the waste land beside the ice- a freer hand than his predecessor, the debtor nationa, who were called

release his three lodgers. They will rimmed Missouri River, just out, Know. for his party commands a 'majority upon to go or paying for the goods

go into some likely-looking coffee side Kansas City, are scores of Heile both in the Senate and in the and services supplied by America

shop' or drug store on Main-street huts; bits of packing ceases, House; and he will eater upon his during the War when the normal

For breaking down coal in mines and beg something for breakfast, flattened-out petrol tins, old adver- Presidency with the prestige of his and only practicable method of pay: there has been invented a hydraulic Country towns are hospitable, but tiging signs, nailed together to form recent victory still undimmed. He ment-by goods and services in device operated by a hand pump they are not very generous to street a shelter. At first you take them will need every advantage he exchange-was. barrid by America that can exert a pressure of 7,000 beggars; nevertheless, perhaps some for allotment tool-sheds; but then

rarely has, for

Prohibitive tariffs have pounds to the Pre-herself.

square inch, many passer-by will give the young you see smoke issuing from a tim sident succeeded to a greater shut out her debtors goods from times the required amount

can chimney here and there, clothes burden of difficulties. It will her markets. By shipping subsidies

The Young "Hobe."

hanging out to drý-and you realise depend mainly upon him and and by restrictions on foreign ship- upon the guidance which he is able ping she has, at an enormous cost ment and accepting a final payment employed, and in any case there is is one of the places where wander- tu give Congress how America will to herself, refused to accept services in full settlement. No moratorium endeavour to meet her grave in- by which some of them were for-jor scaling down of payments would obviously no work to be had in an ing families live when their travels

Fresh from College. ternal economic crisis; to solve the merly able to pay a great part of be of real service, any more than agricultural market town. So the come to an end. question of War debts, which has their debt. By encouraging her were the various concessions which youths warm themselves against the

radiators. In the station waiting- The ranks of the depression- now reached a final critical stage; manufacturers to develop their ex-were made froth time to time to

room until an east-bound freight nomads are, fed from all wrócial and to co-operate in joint efforts to port trade in neutral markets and ease the reparations burden upon train goes by. They will not have classes. A Salvation Army census restore world trade and prosperity, in the debtors' own markets she has Germany, and which by prolonging long to wait, for this is the main in Washington showed that 258 des- Here are three problems of immense made it increasingly difficult to the friction and the unrest only Saints Fe line between Chicago and Utute college graduates, and more Importance and of almost desperate obtain the necessary exchanges. postponed the final breakdown the Pacific.

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H. K. UNIVERSITY CELEBRATION.

21st Anniversary On March 15,

tion must necessarily be given to the that she lent considerables aums will really clear the air and avert able offence, but the station-master those who came to the local Army - eituation at home. Unless he can abroad, particularly to Germany. what in otherwise inevitable takes no notice as these non-paying three months. What is true of produce a programme of vigorous Out of these sums Germany financed general default on the part of the passengers jump into the warmest institution for help in the course of and hopeful action for reviving in her reparation payments to Amer-debtor countries, who, in spite of looking freight car. Since the de- Washington is true of all other

set an entirely different centres. ternal trade and employment, he ica's debtors and through them the the obstacles placed in their way by pression can scarcely hope to win that full money, or part of it; found its way American policy, have done their class of "hobo" on the move, the confidence of Congress and of the back to the United States. Even utmost to meet their obligations, but railway companies have ceased even public which aloze will enable him that round-about method has now who cannot perform impossibilities, to discourage these vagabonde... to deal effectively with his external been blocked, American, banks have Failure to reach such a settlement During the Summer months it is problems. The World Economic censed to lend money, abroad, and would not only prevent ratification no uncommon sight to soo half a Conference is due to meet in Jane, Germany has ceased to pay repara- of the Lausanne Agreement and re-dozen men and boys lounging on It can hardly be postponed much tions. It is thus impossible for the vive dificulties and controversies the roof of a passenger coach. On longer if it is to continue to be War debtor Governments to con-which, it was hoped, had been finally one railway system fifty tramps taken seriously. But it must meet tinue or to resume their payments, closed. It would also make it hope were killed and-over one hundred with the prospect of substantial and it will not become possible an- less to expect any substantial resulta cripples in a few months. achievement; and there can be little less indeed Americs, should decide from the World Economic and If the three travellers-from hope of any substantial achieve completely to reverse her tariff and Monetary Conference. Further, the Lamar are lucky, they may make the On March 16, the Hong Kong. ment unless the question of War other economic policies and to consequent general, inevitable, and 600-mile journey to Kansas City University debts is got out of the way before-accept in goods and services pay-involuntary default would shake within a week, alighting to beg Twenty-Brat Anniversary. A pro hand. The next instalment of the ment for the goods and services credit all over the world. However when they are hungry, sleeping in gramme for the occasion has been service of these debts falls due in which were borrowed from her bold and well conceived Mr. Robse-country prisons or station waiting drawn up which includes the fol- June, and a Conference sitting with This is the situation with which Mr. velt's Internal programme may be, rooms. In Kansas City, surely, lowing items that shadow hanging over the pastd-Roosevelt will have to deal when he it must fall to produce fis fall effect something will turn up; and if not cipating Governments would be taken office on March 4, and it is all in reviving American prosperity in Kansas City, then in Chicage or seriously handicapped in dailing to the good that he is familiarising unless there is concurrent revival St. Louis. If these fall-well, all with the questiona on its agenda, himself with It þeforehand. It is of world prosperity to give the roads lead to New York, many of which are incapable of not unlike the situation with which. American"

market for his In the days when anyone could Kansas solution so long as International: Germany's creditors were food wh exchanges are "disorganised by 'at the cessation of American landings,

tempts to prolong the system of nones

huge inter-Governmental paymenta,

Mr. Roosevelt has had several meet-

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