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Britain's Attitude To Mr. De Valera.

Mr. De Valers continues to defy Great Britain, but he failed to score in the recent negotia tions owing to the British Gov

ernment's wise refusal to allow

The Farm Programme.

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THERE

EVERYWHERE

Washington Dollar Battle

The dollar battle in Washington [will be at least as severe as that between William Jenninge. Bryan and the Gold Republicans in 1896. - While Wall Street and the bankers are hailing Dr. Sprague as an inde- pendent champion of sound cur rency, nearly all the key positions | in the fight are held by the "rubber dollar" advocates.

Mr. Roosevelt has shed all his critica in his own camp. The emergence from his retirement of

TRAGIC VICTIMS OF AMERICA'S CRISIS

EX MILLIONAIRES IN

BREAD LINES

FAITH PINNED IN NR.A.

(By Gordon West.)

New York If you give, a small subscription

Among the ten million unemploy to the organisation that ministers

Mr. Woodin to attack Dr. Sprague ed in the United States fo-day are to their wants, you may pass is another trump in the President's a goodly percentage of men who through the theatre at midnight. hand.

[ance, were "dollar-millionaires.".. and see them at rest.. The light is

It certainly looks as if he is de- bermined, to adhere to his original an plan of a fifty-cent dollars;

The only "sound money" men left in tags

Soldier-Ambassador

They stand in food queues. They dim-but not dim enough to hide live on charity." Some of them are the grimness of this home of melo- drama now given up to the drama.

in any official position are now Mr. They sleep where opportunity of life. Nor dim enough to come Lewis Douglas, Director of the Bud- offers bed or bench. By day they eat the men who lle on bench and get, and Mr. Eugene Black Gover-

floor. A few are in rage, a few nor of the Federal Reserve Board, sit in parks where once they rode developing rags, the rest in the on korschack or in cars. By night seedy stage that precedes shab- many walk the streets where once sunk in a sleep of exhaustion that biness and rags. They lie heavily.. M. Alexander Trojanovaky, the they found fortune, and are glad of hard benches cannot disturb. A Soviet Ambassador to the United States, is of rugged build, and looks the gift of a quarter to buy a meal. snoring negro lles head to feet with more like a fighting man than an While they are living proof of the an ex-bank cashier, intellectual. He is, in fact, a extent of America's financial chaos. In the silence their breathing soldier's son and was brought up as they are also evidence of the eternal sounds like a long, unending sigh. a soldier.

springing of hope. They still pina aigh broken occasionally by the He was born in 1882, was trained their faith in the National Recovery cry of a sleeplug man. at the Russian Woolwich, and served programme, in spite of the vicis- My guide peers into this face and in the Russo-Japanese War. Later, situdes through which it is now that until he finds one he knows. he went to the university, where he passing. Their confidence in the This fellow had 400,000dol.." took his degree in chemistry and power of President Roosevelt told "Made it in oil out West. Law.

extricate them is unbounded, Na-Speculated and made more.

Served in Red Army...

Coincidence

:

he

Destitute Rick

There were ten of the destitute

festo asking the electors to give America and more than two-hun-were saved by an Atlantic liner incomes ranging from £500 to estate.

dozen larger cities throughout

He has

He has been in the revolutionary tional Recovery plans make no Well, here he is." movement since 1912 and was one special provision for the rehabilita Free State were thoroughly of the original members of the Bol- tion of sunken millionaires; yet by amicable and continually improv-shavist Party. He was twice tried organising to use the services of Ing. Britishers were glad to Tsarist courts. After the revo- impoverished men of ability, as rich in the theatre that night. Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 4, 1934. /think that the old quarrel waslutionary troubles of 1906 he was well as those of the manual workers, Among them were a doctor, a stocks.

dying out and that Southern Ire exiled to Siberia

the President paves the way for broker, the former vice-president of land was at last learning how to:

their return.

Middle Western bank that sunk forget. The disappointment has After. his term of exile M. Tro- They are the most tragic victims in the crash, several once wealthy been intense, but the hope of janovsky went abroad, and spent the of America's crisis, these erstwhile farmers come to New York in vain eventual friendship still remains, years from 1910 to 1917 in Switzer-rich mea--tragle because, having search for work which farmlands. If it cannot Be while Mr. Dejiand, Parts and Vienna.

climbed to such heights, they have no longer offered, Velera directs Free State policy Returning to Russia after the now sunk to such depths through no Against the wall, beneath one of it may revive when he is gone. February revolution, he was, mobi fault of their own.

the dim lights, sat a middle-aged Ilsed under the Kerensky regime. Statinties of the People's Aid Soman studying the financial pages of He took part in Brustloft's ill-fated ciety, a charity organisation whose a newspaper. He was an outside advance on the Austrian front."" books I themselves to be dragged into even months ago President October, 1918, he served in the Red through their hands approximately after night he goes to the theatre, After the Bolshevist, revolution in 50.000 examined, show that of broker who used to make thousands men and women who passed a year by shrewd deals, Night hypothetical arguments. By Roosevelt signed the ambitious mea- Army. their discretion the British Gov-justment Act. Its administrator, ly chief of the Technico-Industrial One man in fity, having earned He cannot deal himself.

sure know as the Agricultural Ady

1000 had three years ago possessed borrows & newspaper, and studies. Since 1921 he has been successive incomes of 10,000 dollars and more the movements of stock. ernment have 'sterilised what, if they had allowed themselves to Peek has explained the more Inspection Board, president of the £2000 a year, had been forced to no money. He ekes out an exist

important plans initiated under its State Trading Department, Ambas senk charity, be deceived by Mr. De Valera's authority. plausibilities, might rapidly have posed for the purpose of rafeing of the State Planning Commission. 250 once possessed an income of still have sufficient confidence to Taxes have been im-sador in Japan, and acting-president of this thousand one in every small tradesmen and others who ence by giving tips to a circle of developed into a septic wound many millions of dollars which will They have not supplied him with be distributed in the form of cash the astute electioneering mani-bounties to producers of cotton)

100,000 dollars, or £20,000, risk dollars on small deals. If the On the day on which the German-

Of the 50,000 total, 18 were de broker neta a few dollars commie- deals are successful, this once rich festo which he almost saw al-wheat, corn, hoga and tobacco. Polish agreement was reached last finitely known to have possessed ready in print and on the hoard- Marketing agreements affecting month a German fishing trawler paper wealth amounting to 50,000 which American character is built; sion. He has the optimismon ings all over the South and West 80.000 dairymen have been put into founder in the North Sea 80 miles dollars, of Ireland. We mean & mani- Operation in the milksheds of a north of Jutland.

he knows that, sooner or later, bia There were 6000 men and women chance will come. The crew of the trawler, 12 in all, who had been comfortably off with him a

mandate for the pro-dred similar agreements are in pro-bound from New York to Copenha- £1000 a year."

Here is a realtor, a dealer in clamation of an Irish Republic cess of completion elsewhere. Ef-

Three years ago he owned and not to be. frightened of the forts are being made to increase

big business house," property Some had been given food," some worth a small fortung," and "dealt. leaden sword of British reprisal, prices for producers of many minor Horst Wessel, after the hero of clothes, some found shelter. confidently in stocks and shurða, Jor, alternatively, to show their crops, Behind most of these plans the Nazi revolution, The name of tands a man, no more than 50 years unawaren, and he temporarily

On a corner of Fifth Avenue Tumbling share prices caught him. contempt of the brutal threats of is the philosophy of "domestic allot the Polish liner was Kosciuszko, the hereditary... · enemy," Mr.ment," resting on three assumptions. the hero of Poland's struggis for of age, selling newspapers. Five mortgaged property to pay his Thomas's last reply was an em- First, that the American farmer has Independence.

years ago he had £300,000 in stock, brokers, Then property fell empty phatic refusal to accept Mr. De definitely lost the foreign markets

He made his money in the Florida as tenants went bankrupt or lost Valera's representation of the which formerly provided about one-

land boom. He went to live on their jobe. Beal estate came to fifth of his gross income; second: facts, a denial of his assertion that it is necessary in these circum-

Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, To standstill. Mortgagees foreclosed. that "the British Government stances to curtail production of|

day he earns about ten dollary- In nine months his ruin was com also now realise the evils of, a farm commodities as nearly as pos- Japanese scientists plan to study of it.

week as a “newsboy,"

He is glad Plete, forced association," and a total sible to the demands of 'their own the phenomena of an active volcano

He ape his night In the repudiation of the suggestion markets; third, that it is fair and at close range by being lowered into

Chinese Theatre "Hostel" that "the Free State Government wise to reward the farmer who pro-its crater in an Asbestos lined box. In New York's Bowery stands the duly contemplate the final repudia-misse to curtail production by tax-

old Chinese theatre, long fallen into tion of their treaty obligations.ing for his beneat the urban

An electric headlight is mounted disuse Aweary They refuse, and rightly to say lation of the country. In most

wuum ckaner to the little building-relle that they will do in circumstances the test of the plan still Hes

Lure and in cor. perous days. ~zo-day. which they regard as "purely ahead, since restriction of output in mers not hypothetical After all, Mr. De that of cotton, part of a growing

to begin in 1934 But in one case, in a

Hundi men, Man Valera is not established in per crop has actually been plowed under, petual control of the Irish Free The result has been to reduce the veloped in Italy, is driven

The world's fastest airplane, de- State. The yotes which made Indicated crop for 1988 from 17,000,-propellers revolved In him can equally unmake. He is 000 bales to 18,100,000, Mr. Peek directions, one shaft beini chief of one party only, A few believes that this means the differ the other. years ago he was a rebel. not ance between cotton («?)

centa jagainst ---Great Britain but st. 10 centa's pound, and that

against the Free State Governs 000.000, has been adde ment which was born of the of the crop by the Treaty and stood firm in its súp

port. His emissaries

the Treaty. He cou

himself had he risks of through his int them the

The wrecked trawler was named |

Facts You Did Not Know.

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for

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the case