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UNIVERSAL CELEBRITIES. Sinclair Lewis, in his new novel, 'Ana Vickers" points out the ob vious fact that, there are celebrities and celebrities: those whose reputa-j tion is local and those whose reputa- tion is world-wide.
In 1932, he says, there were' in all the world only fourtoin persons universally known: Colonel Lind- bergh, G. B. Shaw, the Prince of Wales, the ex-Kaiser, Freud, Einstein, Hitler, Mussolini, Gandhi, Hindenburg, Greta Garbo, Stalin, Henry Ford and, "most of all," Al Capone.
It is easier to subtract from this list than to add to it, except that it should certainly have included Charlie Chaplin and omitted Freud and Al Capone, who by 1932 was Presumably well in the shadows.
he is one of the five who ouf of these fourteen "will be forgotten," says Mr. Lewis, "by 1935."
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MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1933.
AMERICA'S PROBLEM OF EMPLOYMENT
ARMY OF HOMELESS
WANDERERS
"NOMADS OF DEPRESSION
The great army of homeless families and boys-victims of the economic upheaval that is roaming over the United States, is creating an increasingly difficult problem which deeply concerns social agencies in all parts of the country. The ex-- tent of the problem and the measures recommended to meet it are recorded in the following article. Mr. Baker is chairman. of the American Welfare and Relief Organisation.
killed and more than 100 crippled. along its route. Hospitals treat the transient only if he is seriously 11.
The drifting family in our coun- try about whom we hear ab much lena than the transient youth has but one reason generally for ite vagabondage, and that is the loss of a job by:ita breadwinner.. Unable to find work, or to continue the rent for payments on the home, the family and ples itself into the old car takes to the highway..
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Human nature is such that almost By NEWTON D. BAKER. any one will give a handout once with some little grace, but con- A curious social phenomenon hastiquons handouts day after day are Only One Woman.
developed out of the present depres-often not so generously bestowed. Analysing Sinclair Lewis's list, it sion. All over, the country hordes So we have the family making its is found that the universal cele of young people and entire families way as best it can, looking for the brities distributed among the are found wending their way along elusive job, the unexpected stroke nations thus: Germany 4, America the highways and byways. They of luck or the pot of gold at the 3. England 2 (if Mr. Shaw is Eng- are the people whom our postoffices end of the rainbow, and as a rule lish), India, Sweden, Italy, Russia label "address unknown," and whom ending its pilgrimage in some re- the and Austria Iench. Hitler, we call transients, lacking a more mote spot miles away from
place, miserable avid though born just over the Austrian adequate term by which to describe starting border, is for this purpose ranked them. Every group in society is destitute...
The children of these familles as-a German)
represented in their ranks, from the There is but one woman.
college graduate to the child who 'perhaps suffer most of all. They
dazad, bewildered bits of.. These are the occupations of the has never seen the inside of a are
humanity driven' from town to town-- great: Royalties, men of science, schoolhouse.
called strange force .Expectant mothers, sick babies, by (Gandhi, of course, is an agitator; young childless couples, grim-faced "depression". which has upset the The China Mail ever been in the history of this Hitler, as yet, is little more); one middle-aged dislodged from lifetime stability of their past and is dan man of letters, one airman, one film jobs-on they go, an index of in- gerously threatening the safety of country. But as Mr. Beaumont star, one industrialist, one gangster, security, an unusual and amazing their future, Hong Kong, Monday, March 13, 1933. Pease (Lloyds) and Mr. Beckett one president.
sight even in a country used to the Workshops and work have pointed out, the expansion It is up to the elder statesmen, unexpected. We think of the either local or State, are suggested of credit has not only failed to poets, painters, musicians, actors, nomads of the desert-now we have as effective methods for the care Conditions Of Recovery increase the amount of money tinkers, tailors, soldiers and sailors the nomads of the depression. and training both of youthfol
employed in trade it actuall to issue their counterðlast. The annual apeeches of the shows a considerable decrease leading British bankers, deliver- but it has also failed to lift cóm- ed at the various London bank modity prices. Mr. Beckett de meetings held recently, have clared that reflation in America shown this year a more than by which is meant an expan usually close approach to unani- sion of credit with the object of The thing for you to do" said present transient army, Because of and other directed activities. Each mity on
the main economic raising commodity prices had the doctor to the man with the the difficulties which lie in the way community is requested to make these overy effort to provide for its own questiona, of the day. Perhaps failed also. Air. Pease said much frazzled nerves, “is to stop think of a "head-to-head" cousas, the experiences and experiments the same thing. Indeed that is about yourself-bury yourself in Agures are generally conceded as unattached, single citizens as well of the past year have contributed clearly the ppinion of the major- your work."
Your Daily Smile.
Hard,
camps,
At least 25,000 families in our transients and those who have been country and more than 200,000 boys ao long on the road as to have lost and young men are reported by the their habits of work. Where po United States Children's Bureau and work is available, it is recommend.. the National Association of Traveled that relief be furnished as well ers Aid Societies as recruits In the as opportunity for training, study.
telling only a part of the story. The na families. to ft; but for some time past itlity of bankers, though Mr. Gosh returned the patient. actual count, beyond doubt, is has been clear to those who are McKenna, who is always inter- “And me a concrete mixer!" several times the reported figures. Ope thing we know positively: that fin, this army is gaining rapidly in
numerical strength.
Badly Matched
Many Boys Under 21, One-quarter
of the present
In constant contact with expert csting, takes a different view. banking and business opinion Similarly on the problem of re- that there is no fundamental storing world trade bankers as a Mistress: "So your life was very difference about the cause and whole believe that there are unhappy? What was the troublet the cure of economic depression: limits to what can be achieved by December wedded to May 17* There has never, for instance, purely domestic action. All of Chloe Johnsons Lan sake, no, transient army, we are told, is made been any important divergence them have expressed apprecia- mum! It was Labour Day wedded of opinion among bankers over tion of what has been achieved to de Day of Rest!" the impossibility of transferring by the National Government In] enormous sums from one country the past year in bringing about] to another in respect of repara-a rehabilitation of the country's tions and inter-Allled War debts financial position. Traditionally In a world so heavily fortified the City believes in free trade, by tariff walls as to render even but without exception the bank- ordinary reciprocal commercial ers have approved the Govern payments difficult, let alone vast ment's tariff policy. At the same one-way payments such as War time most, if not all, of them debts. Year after year they have endorse the view expressed by
HARD TO CONVINCE "Professor, a man dishes to speak to you
"Tell him I am out."
Citizen Co-operation Citizens are baked to co-operate in solving this problem by directing those who apply to them for aid to ja designated social agency or tą o central bureau for transients if one has been set up.
Believing that an ounce of pre-
up of boys ranging between 18 and vention is worth a pound of cure, 21 years of age. Girls flock to the social service leaders are urging city in numbers, but the desire to schools, churches and welfare organ- travel long miles across country has their communities to hold the in- isations to develop projects within not as yet proved as contagious to terest of those who are seriously them as it has to their brothers. affected by the depression and so ́ Russia's experience with her vaga- keep them from the disillusioning bond youth should prove a warning and demoralising experiences of the,, "Send him in to me and I will tell as they were called, came into being. road. him myself."
to us. The shelterless, or bezprizoral; after the overthrow of the Rusalan munity facility should be in active
Every existing constructive com monarchy in 1917 and increased 49 service at this time School cur rapidly that they were estimated in
wherever
"I did, but he would not go."
Warning
Landlord: "They needn't wait those few years. If you don't pay by one o'clock, they can say Il to-morrow!"
Everybody's Rnging It.⠀
"Where will the next war be fought? Jake a writer. Probably the poorhouse.
in
wild children of Russia"? the press and other acts of violence. The termed them.
Personal Pars.
The reasons which have made our
Mr. R. Vaughan Fowler arrived in. transient youth take to the road! seem mild in comparison with those Hong Kong yesterday by the sa.. which caused the Russian children's Pres. Cleveland." exodún.
America's vagabonds, however,
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Miller are also
share this quality in common with passengers for the United States by Busala's wild children; having tasted the Pres. Grant
endeavoured to show that the Mr. Beckett and Mr. Goodenongh Poet (to landlord, who is making a few years' time to number from ricula should be enlarged, trade supply of monetary gold was in- (Barclay's) that the British tariff sufficient to discharge the pay should be used primarily to ob- "You ought to pay me for living This army of children, many of them Possible and public buildings thrown
yet another attempt to get his rent): 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 boys and girls. courses made available ments, and that default must tain by agreement the lowering here. In a few years' time, people as young as 10 years, terrorized open to community groups in the soaner or Inter take place unless of tariff barriers all round. "The will be looking up at this miserable whole villages and cities and became evening for recreational and train pared to make a settlement on Mr. Beckett observed," to the ler, the poet, used to life? the creditor countries were pre erection of these obstacles,” as Ritle and saying," "That's where known for their murders, robberies ing activities, ̈ ̈ the Lausanne model. This situa passage of international com tion the bankers have endeavour merce is to no small extent ed to illuminate in their inevit responsible for the deepening of able comments on the subject of the world depression. Financial the American debt, and Mr. opinion seeins generally to hold Rupert Beckett (Westminster) also that the breakdown of the deserves special attention for his gold standard is primarily an statement that "the situation effect rather than a cause of the with regard to War debts has world's troubles. Mr. Paton been improved recently by the (Mertin's) faithfully Interpreted American invitation to this coun- this opinion in saying that the try to send & deleration in order world's troubles will not be solved to begin discussion on this sub by approaching thers as if they | Ject early" 'in' March," when the were due to the gold stähdárd, or
new President takes office. Tas if they could be cured by us. and War Debts resultant saving of time if monetary action alone. As he great importance" The affait pointed out, discussion as to the do us any berm la therefore now to some extent advantages or disadvantagës "of sub judice, and I must speak of gold as a monetary standard must. the matter with restraint and tend to be fruitless until the in without provocation" The past ternational problems which have year has been one of the leanest brought about the présent cribis periods that the banking com- have found a' solution." "In "the munity have known for a very view of Sir Harry Goschen" (Na" For commercial use an autogira long time, but, lean as 1932 was, tional Provincial) almost all the with accommodations for tour per 1988 to likely to be leaner still underlying causes of the present was in its cabin has been built at Not since the nineties have depression are really political. Philadelphia; *** money vaten been so unremunera-"If at the forthcoming confer-
trade and im-1
MODERN VERSION. Expect to be done'âs you would like to do others.
the poison of a wandering life they
and it difcult to give it up."
Comdr. and Mrs. L. C.. Dunn àre
It is impossible to travel across expected to leave the Colony on any country, to live in box cars or Wednesday by the sa. Pres. Grant "jungles," as the camp sites near the
"And another little think wouldn't railroad yards are called, or even in
Facts You Did Not Know.
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The Misses V. pid G. Allen were. municipal shelters, without meeting passengers by the sa. Pres. Clave- men whose Influence is destructive. and which arrived in the Colony, All too caally impressionable young yesterday.
people thrown into these environ ments without home guidance ́or]
Mr. M. Y. Lo, Mr. Oel Kang SjuaD direction pick up the vices and and Mr. Thon Soe Sfong were pas crimes of the underworld-gambling.sengers by the a. Pres. Cleveland stealing, drug addiction, prostitu: which arrived yesterday. tion and sexual perversion.
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The philosophy of.“no work" can- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Atkinson not but appeal to many of these are leaving Hong Kong on Wednes
are available.
· Hazards to Health
Unletd States.
DEATH.
tive as at present, and, in the ence,” he said; "the nations of What is believed will be the young people who are untrained and day by the a.s. Pres. Grant for the absence of a revived demand for Europe will agree to renounce the most northerly coal storage plant in to whom even in good times only money for trade purposes, the same excessive nationalism that the world wil be erected at Bergen, dull, monotonous and dead-end jobs present low rates are likely to makes them choke' the channel of Norway," continue, Boop after Britain do- international parted from the gold standard poverish themselves in the pure Revolving racks feature a new The health hazards of the road are the Government, partly to mest suit of economic self-sufficiency, household Lood storage cabinet the also many for the transient. Often the view that an attempt at then the world may be blessed feet of which stand in bowls of pil he arrives in town sick from - FORBES On 18th March, 1988 at least should be made to see with a3 revival of hope and con- to repel anta
posure or lack of food. Last Winter whether trade could be stimulated fidence. Such a revival, be add-i
In one Western city thirty-five men by an expansion of credity an-jed, Won)
Plants have been established in and boys wepe.. removed: from box larged the monetary basis, with in commodity, pris that is Sweden and Finland the the man cars perloudy ill, some in advanced Įthe result that banking deposité essential: jÉ
tency of, facture of Insalating board for stages of meumonia: One railroad are larger than they have debtork End: Utbr countries. building
alone' reported fifty man and boys.
3.30 am. in the Canones Hos- pital, Alexander Roger Farben: aged 62. Kaya m
Funeral will take place AT THE JEWISH CEMETERY at 5.80
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