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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1933.

AMERICA'S GREAT ADVENTURE

HOW GENERAL JOHNSON IS DOING HIS JOB

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'NOT A TIME FOR HOLDING BACK"

By General Hugh S. Johnson

(Administrator of President Roosevelt's National Recovery Plan.)

ENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON it had

an

Empire Tea Triumphs

London.

As at the same time the consump- tion of the foreign product only de- creased by 20,000,000 lb., we must be drinking more tea.

The

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President's re-employment

G 100s born in Kanes of Scottist agreement represents an individual

work.

With the general improvement in It is curious, in this connection.;

| fest everywhere. absorbing thou- ent, to collaborate for the pre-to note how our taste in beverages business conditions which is mani-

A century ago servation of peace. The Nazis has changed.

laands of unemployed daily, and the consumed, on an average, a pound

even more rapid change as we move gratuitous bullying of neighbours of tea and a pound of coffee per

we

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or who

Square Deal For Labour

Hong Kong, Friday, October 27, 1933. on all boundaries, and especially head of population every year. Now from a' popular psychology of fear ary and acute concern.

Germany's Foreign

Policy.

of confi-

The Arst time it remained dry for nearly a month, and then filled up again as mysteriously vanished.

with But in less than a week the waters Irish parents. Began his career as agreement

the President then switched, whereby an empolyer agrees to had disappeared for a second time.ļa millitary student,

The legend over to the law. During the war, shorten hours, raise wages and co- Why, nobody knows.

employees in says that the once-a-century vanish- general at 36, he won a nickname operate with his ing trick is to remind the people of the Red-Tape Slasher. In buai peaceful settlement of their differ

was near and politica is a protege of Mr. caces the day he puts his signature- Batar of the Evil Eye, who killed here. There is a cavity, in the "Barny" Boruch. Joined the Baruch to the document. shape of an eye in the bed of the firm at 120, Broadway six peora opo,

Every industry and every lake. which is cited as evidence of Is short, square-shouldered, with

ployer who entura the President's |curiously bloodshot eyes, Careless re-employment agreement this.

as a re-jobout clothes. Works from 8 am is subject to a specific code which minder, however: so local people are 2 a-m,, and has written fiction is has been approved by the President Has been described as will be enrolled as a member of the asking if tuere is any special sign:-[spare time ficance in the "double event, or if the sort of man who bites the ear National Recovery Administration old of his horse when the spurs don't and authorised to use the official N.

R. A. seal on his premises, equip American industry has embarked ment, produces and communications. on a great Industrial Recovery Act. The National Industrial Recovery Act has threefold purpose--to: Meanwhile, the work of organis- Our Empire ten-growers are pat- ung themselves on the back. As a create employment, to raise wagosling and stablising indutry to pro- result of a campaign in favour of and to eradicate the piratical and vide increased employment and im- practices proved labour conditions and to Empire, zs against foreign tea, their cut-throat competitive

which, aggravated by the economic eliminate the unfair and destruc- sales in this country last year werej

demoralisation of the last few years, tive practices which are crippling 156.000,000 lb. more than in 1930.

businaas business will bave brought American

be rushed forward through the method of specific and industry to its knees.

The possibilities of this recovery (codes. programing are great.

In this vast programme to reha- bilitate industry and labour the consumer must not be forgotten. and He is essential to its success, his protection is a matter of prim

Misgivings and misunderstand- of Austria, makes that clain our average annual consumption is and unemployment to one suspect. Baron von Neurath's three-quarters of a pound of coffee dence and re-employment, it seems logs of the object of the Recovery safe to predict that the turn of the Act have been created by confusing Ispeech on the eve of the re--and ten pounds of ten!

well advices to industry. Disarmament] assembly of the

This is probably partly due to the year enould find the country

For example, circulars and other

Conference was

of a piece with cuterprise of Indian ten-growers. on the road back to recovery.

The programme does not contem-terature purporting to come from to-the Nazis' provocative actions. Thirty years ago they levied them If Germany's intentions

expand plate public management of private labour union agents have intimated it le the purpose of the Re- were not calculated to wards her neighbours and the If it

¡their overseas markets by advertis-business; it does not contemplate that peace of Europe are founded in stiffen the French altitude ofing and in other ways. The result the fixing of prices and wages by covery Act to unionise labour, and does not the only way a worker could bene. goodwill, the recent speeches by mistrust then it expressed only

that, since then, the exports of governmental decree; it the German Foreign Minister will a stupid carelessness towards Indian tea have more than doubled. contemplate the unionisation of la-fit under it was by joining their there any intention of setting up It is our duty to see that all la- only increase the misunderstand-lefforts to restore European good. They are now over 380,000,000 16.bour by Federal command. Nor a union.

und will which would deny any year, of his country

any industrial "Tsar."

bour, whether organised or unor- ing abroad

If in an attempt to check and gamsed, gets a square deal, and it the Nazi policy. For months statesmanship in the Hitler Gov-

But Your Daily Smile

then control permanently the disin-wil fulfil that reponsibility. past the Nazi leaders have been ernment. Either way it is inex-

tegrating forces of depression which it is not our duty to act as an in- glorifying war as un uplifter of cusable. Commenting upon the

month, the Proving the Proverb.

still menace the security of the na-strument for unionising labour, and

no such action will be taken. A fasting girl, who was allowed tion. propaganda from a Government Times said of the Nazi leaders-

Should it so happen that difficul- it a industry make which professes peaceful inten-"They may shrink from the in-nothing but snuff, kept alive

thirty-seven days. Snuff, of course,

ties within tions is indefensible. The Nazis' consistency of attempting now to]

seem impossible or tend to delay the passion which being as good as a feast. excuse, apparently, is that Ger-damp down

A Burden on Industry unreasonably the presentation of HOME WORK

its code, the law empowers the Re must be rescued from they themselves have fomented,

Undeniably this programme A small boy entered a grocer's

in-covery Administration to hold hear- moral decay, induced by a senseland to restrain their wilder fal-

thrusts 2 heavy burden on the Ver-lowers from putting into prac-and said: lof humiliation under

the doctrines which they od.. u pound of butter at Is. 10d., to bo altruistic about it.

"A pound of tea at 2dustry but industry is not asked ings and enforce a code for such an

The Act industry on our own motion. sailles Treuty; and that Herrtice

have done much to spread. But a pound of sugar at 51⁄2d, and a provides definite compensatory bene-

No Child Labour Hitler was elevated to power, it is the Lask which every retin of condensed milk at 8d. And Ats for industry which will ba- first as lender of German youth, (volution is set, and no ather how much change shall I get out of lance the scale and, of course, ac been an opportunity to observe the and then as head of the nation, course is really open to them."

three half-crowns ?"

tual increase in costs must be com-Industrial Act in operation. The [011 a national demand for re-Last May an outspoken state.

*270d., my boy," replied the pensated by Increasing prices.

cotton textile industry has submitt assertion of Germany's right to ment by President Roosevelt

As long as the two factors, wages,ed a code, and it has been approved equality of status among the brought Herr Hitler to modify shopkeeper, after making a light-

ning mental calculation.

which represent consuming power by the President. This industry is nations, That may to an extent the tone of his public statements

prices remain at about "Oh, thanks," said the juvenila and

notorious for the practices be true. There may have been at the time when acceptance or gratefully "that's my homework same level the situation holds cer- the law was designed to rectify-- excuse for the revival of patrio-rejection of the Four-Power Fact

for to-night."

tain elements of safety, but when tic feeling in Germany as means was in the balance. Since then

prices begin to outstrip wages it long hours of employment and low: pay for its workers and ruthless to an end, and it has been allow the United States has become!

becomes ominous and dangerous. ed full weight. But the nations entirely absorbed in domestic

We are not going to stand for methods of competition.

Representatives of the Industry, affairs. Perhaps Hitler sees in with whom' Germany demands

xky-rocketing prices until the con-

Labour and the Government sat the weakness of American for

suming power of the country ins equality are in league to seek eign policy and the weakness of peace and ensue it. On profes- the British Navy an opportunity

been raised. That is the principat down in public, and in a few days worked out their differances, Egres- reason why the President has pro-ing to increase minimum wages to sion of similar sentiments by its for a renewal of the modern

mulgated his re-employment agree-the purchasing power level of 1929, [Government, Germany was ad-form of German, sabre-rattling. She: "A pretty time of night for ment

mitted to the League with full The Nazis cannot put forward as prestige, her war reparations excuse any provocation from the you to come, home!"

But France has double were forgiven her, and finally, as French.

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COMMENCING SUNDAY, 29th Oct.

ON THE STAGE

AN ALL STAR STAGE SHOW

THE MIDNIGHT FOLLIES

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A MODERN SINGING DANCING REVUE

WITH 15 ARTISTS

THE SEVEN STYLISH STEPPERS A BEVY OF DANCING BEAUTIES

FRANK BRAIDWOOD, MUSICAL COMEDY-PICTURE STAR.

BETTY and ARLENE.

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for

ACCOUNTED FOR. "I've never had an argument with a girl yet that I couldn't settle."

What a bank account you must have!"

Mutual Understandlag.

The restoration of the purchas- ing pawer of the people is essential to our economie recovery.

the

In the last two months there has

which

The President's re-employment reduction in hours of labour to two He: "A pretty time of night for agreement was promulgated with shifts of 40 hours a week, checking the object of bringing up purchas-over-production, and the abolition la gesture in aid of agreement wurrant for the firmest attitude you to be awake!"

She: "I stayed awake for the ing power and price levels with of child labour.

Continued on Page 10). jupon a practical disarmament now in demanding guarantees of plan, Germany's rights to even-security before she consents to last four hours waiting for you to some degree of simultaneousness.

disarmament. Not only has she come home." tun! equality in the matter of) Jarmament were admitted. The every right to assure her own myself awake for the last four

protection from an apparently

He: "And I have been keeping

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German Foreign Minister's. simu-war-lusting neighbouur, but she bours at the club waiting for you lated indignation now against holds to-day Britain's former to go to sleep." his country's being "kept in the place as the ready champion of fetters of the Versailles Treaty" civilisation in Western Europe. Yearn while you Leam, is entirely unwarranted in faca The comments In the London

A Hollywood actor offers postal

Know.

of concessions by the Powers press recently are not the only tuition in love-making. ||against whom this charge is signs of recognition in Britain Facts You Did Not

made. Besides the revival in that independent disarmament propaganda of what the London has only weakened Britain's in- fluence for the preservation of Times calls "pan-Germaniam in peace. The danger of Austria · Every largo motion picture its crudest and most fanatical in face of the Nazi menace is a theatre form,"

the Nazi leaders have European affair, and, if the equipped for reproduction of sound translated into action their in-League of Nations had the au-[films, citement of their people to march thority and respect still claimed

in Germany His both

forward to "a great destiny bo-for it, a meeting of its Connell Elevators that travels on turvod yond their own State." The would have been convoked ere tracks have been designed for the claim of the German leaders for now to deal with the situation, on the midės'of dirigible' balloons. equal status with other great Meanwhile a generation which

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has been invited by German Mexico. has levied a five per cent. Powers is adorissible in the prac apologists to declaire, on the gross receipts tax on all radio sta- tical form it they demand to-day evidence, that Germany was not tions that broadcast for broût, only bon-the-roognition, that responsible for the war in 1914

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