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Benefits Of The Ottawa Agreements.

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

France's Richest Man

The French Government's deci aion to control wheat prices in or

der to avert the slump which this

-THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1933.

INTIMATE LIFE OF:

THE ROOSEVELTS

PRESIDENT'S BATTLE AGAINST INFIRMITY

year's big crop might be expected HEAVY DRAIN ON WHITE HOUSE

to produce, will make serious in-

roads on the profits of M. Dreyfus.

the French wheat "king.”

3. Dreyfus is, in the view of a well-informed

Frenchman, the He buya

richest man in France.

PURSE

(By H. J. Greenwall.)

New York.

herited from her father an anqual nearly all the wheat produced by What is America's President-Income of £1,500, French farmers and, in fact, is one the man of the moment-like?

In the ordinary way the Roose- children of the great figures in the world's Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the velta, despite their five wheat markets. His deals in the first President of the United States and houses in New York and their United States, in the Argentine, in to suffer from a physical infirmity home at Warm-springs, Georgia. Poland and Hungary, affect the lives which makes ordinary walking an would have been fairly comfortably. of millions of peasants.

Na-

Impossibility.

"At college he was the most strikingly handsome man of his Lime.

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winning

off.

But their incomes have shrunk considerably, and to-day they are not well off at all.

President's Hobby

To save money they are trying to let their home on Sixty-Firth- street, New York. It is crowded: with marine prints, a collection. which is the President's only hobby.

His counterpart in the wheat in- dustry in Britain is Mr. Joseph Rank, the millionaire flour-miller.

Newspaper Owner's Wealth To-day, at the age of 8fty-two. the President, from, head to waist, The next richest man in France, la a most imposing man with a the same judge estimated, is M. handsome head and Raymond Patenotre, the young smile. Under-secretary of State for

But since the day when his sall- tional Economy.

ing boat overturned and immersed M. Patenotre, at 32. has uncon-him in icy cold water, causing him cealed political ambitions, and owns to contract infantile paralysis, he are devoted to dogs. Roosevelt's one of the largest chains of news has been crippled from the waist favourite dog is a collie called Ma- papers in France. Including the downwards. His legs have shrunk jor. Major and Mrs. Roosevelt's "Petit Journal.”

to the thinness of those of a small two dogs have moved into the White House, which will be their home for the next four years.

From his maternal grandfather, child. L American, he inherited the Since the day of his accident "Philadelphia Inquirer," sold it be-President Roosevelt has fought a fore the Wall Street crash for over continuous battle. U.S.$1,000,000 dollars, and invested. this sum with an American bank in Paris on condition that the book in- demnified him against depreciation.

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Public Schools Industrial Course A new move is about to be made.

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of

He drives a car because he has a specially constructed gearshift on the dashboard. Once Bfted into a saddle he can, and sometimes does, go horse riding.

He keeps fit physically by swim-

Both the Fresident and his wife

Roosevelt has exchanged his. former total annual Income of £4,000 a year, at par, for a salaty of £15,000 a year with an added £5,000 for travelling allowance and entertainment. This £20,000 may sound large- but there is a heavy drain on it.

The President need not spend a the

The Roosevelts often stay with his mother, who owns what is per- haps the most magnificent country

and is about 75 miles from New The estate is known as Hyde Park,

York.

Baronial Manor

manor,

They have five children- Anna, the eldest, is married to a residence in the State of New York. The Dalls have two small children stockbroker named Curtis Dall.

James, the eldest boy, and Elliot, neither of whom has yet chosen a career or profession.

John, and Franklin, who are both at school. For some years the President has

Mrs. Roosevelt sen., who recent been earning an average salary of ly wrote a magazine article under £3,000 a year, at par, plus an in- the title: "I did not raise my boy many come of £1,000 a year which he in- to be President," lives in state.

herited from his father, who left 03

It is really a baronlal |standing on a high hill facing the

Hudson River.

take advantage of the prefer enees granted them in the Bri Lish market. Figures recently for the introduction of modern in-ming, for, although he cannot walk penny of his own money on

[except with two sticks and cannot maintenance of the White House, Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 16, 1993. published by the Canadian Gov.dustrial training into the curriculum raise his feet two inches from the because there is an annual grant of

ernment show a remarkable in-l

of public schools.

ground, he swims well.

£26,000 for that purpose, crease

be tried The experiment is to in inter-Empire trade.

There has been some talk here of A good part of Roosevelt's earri During the three months ending during the coming school year at Installing a swimming pool in the ings has been spent, and will, no on June 30 last the exports to where Mr. E. I. Lewis is to give a Rugby, Berkhamsted, and Stowe,

basement of the White House, but doubt, continue to be spent, on a countries of the British Empire series of lectures on craftsmanshin the expenditure of £10,000 for this sanatorium for children suffering constituted well over 45 per cent. and industry. There is ample warrant for of the total exporta from the

purpose is considered out of place from infantile paralysis. during the present financial crisis.

The sanatorium is at Warm the claim made by the Canadian Dominion, as

Mr. Lewis, who was for many compared with a

Springs, where Roosevelt believes Premier, Mr. R. B. Bennett, that little over

selence master at

Five Children years senior 36 per cent. in the Oundle, has been employed since the

that he himself has obtained bene- "Canada is now standing on the corresponding period of the pre-war as technical manager

This crisis, which hit the Preal-st from the waters. "threshold of recovery." For vious

year. Nor has this im-industrial chemical firm

audent's countrymen, also hit the some months past there has been provement been so one-sided as North of England.

in the Roosevelts. accumulating evidence of re-some

critics have complained. covery. The latest report on During the same

It is hoped that his lectures will economic conditions in Canada by the percentage of Canadian im-modern business and industrial con- three months give the boys an understanding of the British Trade Commissioner ports which came from countries ditions, and lessen some of the diffi leaves no doubt that; whatever within the Empire rose from culties that beset the public school difficulties remain to be over-under 25 per cent. in 1932 to boy starting a commercial career. come, the bottom of the depres-nearly 33 per cent. in 1933. sion has already been reached and There has been in fact, accord- passed. Improvement has been ing to These figures. a market in- gradual but unmistakable. Most crease in Canadian imports from significant is the fact, which Mr the other countries of the Em- Bennett very properly emphas pire and particularly from the] izes, that the number of people United Kingdom, an increase the A new textile useful for in receipt of relief has shrunk more remarkable since it accom-machine and easily cleaned is made him £20,000, from a million and a half in panied a general shrinking in the of a cotton fabric to which a cella- April to less than a million lust volume of world trade and in the

He had also behind him the in- month. Since the beginning of total volume

ancial resources of his mother, of Canadian

[phane surface is cemented. im-

whose wealth was formerly estim the year the volume of business ports. The same conclusion is

ated at about £150,000. She in- has increased by over 30 per reached by the British Trade Two Austrians claim to have set herited this not from the Prest- cent.; and it has been more pro- Commissioner, who quotes figures the world's altitude record for dent's father, but from her fitable business, for during that covering a different and longer motorcyclists by riding to the top father, Warren Delano, the owner time wholesale prices have risen perlod but yielding the same re- of a high Alpine peak while travel-of many Pennsylvania coal mines by 9 per

cent. Every step in sult. Naturally all classes of ling from Carinthia to Tyrol. and much real estate recovery makes the next step British export manufacturers

Roosevelt married his second easier. It was the evidence of have not benefited alike. Some, progress achieved in the early indeed, seem not to have bene- A new pyroxylin enamel for tools causis, Eleanor Roosevelt, who in- months of the year which made fited at all, whether through in-linge directly to metals without re- possible the outstanding and inevitable drawbacks, or through quiring the use of an undercoating stantaneous success of the Cana unfair tariff handicaps, or, it may bending without cracking.

and is flexible enough to withstand dian loan issued in London two be in particular cases, through months ago. This success in its their own lack of energy in push-

Facts You Did Not Know.

purposes that can be sewed

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turn stimulated the revival of ing their goods or of adaptability What is said to be the only fish confidence in the Dominion and in catering for the Canadian hospital in the world is at Toronto, prepared the way for the issue of market. So far as unfair tariff fish from aquariums being brought the much larger internal Conver-handicaps are concerned, the there to be treated for diseases audi sfon Loan subscribed by the complaints of British manufac-even surgical operations. Canadian investor. And the turers are now being examined success of that issue, materially by the Tariff Board, whose pro-| lessening the burden of interest ceedings will be followed with armly feature a new type of auto- Claw like links that grip the road) charges on the Dominion tax close attention. It was set up to mobile tyre chain that is buckled in payer, will mark an important secure the application of the place with an offset plate to protect stage on the upward fourney. principle, established by the wheel rim from chafing.. Mr. Bennett does not claim that Ottawa Agreement, that ""pro- Canada has seen the end of her tective duties shall not exceed

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troubles. Indeed he is careful to such a level as will give United Spraying apparatus for fruit deprecate any undue optimism. Kingdom producers full oppor-i ineos Invented by a German la said. He even warns the public that tunity of reasonable competition to treat the foliage exactly like rain the most severe test may be yet on the basis of the relative cast without injury to fruit, power being to come. Forces, he says, con- of economical and efficient pro- supplied by an electric motor. nected with the recovery production." There is a provision

gramme in the United States for special consideration to be British India has prohibited the would have enormous influence, given to Industries not fully importation of hand grenades and and over them Canada could ex-established, but the Canadian other appliances for discharging| ercise no control. However that Government undertook that pro-as except by or for the govern may be, the improvement already tection would be given only to ment visible is substantial enough to such industries as were."""reason" justify a sober confidance in the ubly assured of, sound oppor

future. Some of that improve tunities for success." These are It. British manufacturers can ment is undoubtedly due to the broad principles of which the help the Board to fulfil its im- revival of business and of con- effect must necessarily depend portant functions by following fidence in the United Staton since upon the spirit in which they are the example, set by the Woollen Mr. Roosevelt launched his re applied. In spite of the long Textile Industries and by othera, covery campaign. But there can delay in the appointment of the who have submitted to the Board equally be no doubt about the Tarif Board and of what seems the facts and figures on which effect of the Ottawa Agreements the unnecessary complications of they base their contention that in stimulating Canadian trade ita procedure, there to every rea- the duties imposed upon their with Great Britain and with the son to assume that it will exam- goods contravens the principle] rest of the Empire. Canadian Ine, Impartially and carefully laid down in the Ollawa Agree- producers have not been slow to overy, complaint brought before ment.

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While her son was Governor of the State of New York, which was the post he held until the end of last year, he would go to stay with his mother, accompanied by State troopers, who were billet- ed at Hyde Park while the Governor was staying there.

quarters at the White House far The Roosevelts I think, find their

Iess comfortable than Mrs. Roose- velt sen.'s lovely home.

(Continued on Page 13.)

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