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As a result of American recogn:- tion of the Moscow Government thei Tsarist Embassy in Washington

MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1934,

CHEERY CAMP LIFE

INDA

8,000 WORKLESS MEN ABSORBED

has been handed over to the Soviet BUILDING CHAIN OF

authorities.

For the past 13 years this impos-i ing building has been in the pos session of M. Sergeyeff. He is the only surviving representative, in America. of the Kerensky regime.)

AIRPORTS

(By Julian Duguid.)

In "Ottawa I met Gen. Andrew horseplay as the virgin forest, was

M. Sergeyeff has enjoyed all the McNaughton, Chief of the Cana-raped and the land became more privileges of a fully accredited Am-dian General Staff and inventor of level.

bassador. He has appeared at the creeping barrage. I had heard My straw-boss (Western Canada State banquets at the White House, of his relief camps (116 of for foreman) was a student from and at all the functions of the them, absorbing 8,000 unmarried the University of British Columbia, diplomatic corps in Washington.

workless men), and was anxious to too poor to finish his course. He

For many years, however, he has know more. He was very helpful took the situation with a philo been unable to return these hos-Canada cannot afford to deny work schools, remembering that he was "You see," he explained, "we in sophy finer than is taught in pitalities.

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Headmaster Presidents

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He possesses neither secretaries to those who want it. In a remark- garnering experience. At night I nor servants. He has lived since ably short time they become dis-slept with the men.. 1920 in the porter's lodge.

couraged, unemployable. So we The food was good, though plain, Now he has been dislodged.

atarted these camps, under military as the General had said. There supervision. They are quite volun- was fresh meat, bacon and tary. Not a single military word porridge, fresh vegetables and of command is used. There are no milk, bread baked St. John's College, Oxford, is fol-drills and no punishments, because butter and jam, tea and coffee.

on the spot, lowing an unusual tradition of its anyone who is dissatisfied can just casionally there was fish. And Jown in appinting a headmaster as clear out.

this was provided wholesale on a its president.

"We provide the men with daily reckoning of 25 cents Dr. Cyril Norwood has ruled over clothes, boots

per and gloves, razors, man. A Harrow for the last seven years.

gourmet might have and even

toothbrushes and jibbed at the variety. Nothing but His predecessor at St. John's the pyjamas. They have a tobacco a bon-constrictor could have gone late Dr. H. A. James, was succes ration of 2 oz per week and an al-hungry. sively headmaster of Rossall, prin lowance of 20 cents (about 18) a cipal of Cheltenham

Preparing A Camp and head- day. master of Rugby.

From Yahk I pushed on the "The men have stout, weather- Kitchener, the first air port to be St. John's is one of the smaller proof houses which, in many cases, completed under the relief scheme. Oxford colleges, but it is famous they have built themselves; and The man in charge was an ex-officer for four things:

good, though very plain, food. In who had been through Wellington The China Mail

The number of its men who hold exchange they give us eight hours and Sandhurst. His carry. Unnecessary tonnage has office at the Union; the number who a day and keep their self-respect. orderly, his men Camp was Hong Kong, Monday, January 29, 1934. been created and kept in opera-know Hebrew: its rock garden, This is important because directly with the same expressions of con- smart and keen, tion, and the working of the

which even Kew envies; and its a job is offered they can step into tentment. freight market on an economic ghost of Charles I., who walks on it without fear of having lost their Shipping Subsidies.

basts has been made impossible, his knees since the floor of the col-drive. When the job comes we handiwork, a flat, cleared space of Private enterprise in shipping lege hall was raised. Lord Essendon recently de- cannot maintain itself indefinite-Wise and Otherwise clared that unless Great Britain against competition heavily was content to run the risk of the subsidized by Governments; and, Your Daily Smile. gradunt eclipse of the British unless present

"It isn't much," he said, present-even more justification. It is tendencies arc shipping industry some active checked, the ultimate result must Force of Habit.

ly. "especially in this country of not every lawnkeeper who has to policy would have to be adopted; be to deprive international com

high wages. But it is better than reduce to rock-gnarled forest to the the question was what that policy merce of cheapness and efficiency year-old baby out of a river. It addition, we

A man in a fishing contest pulled relief kitchens and bunkhouses. In level of a cricket pitch. was to be. No one at all fami-in transport.

are Increasing the Back in his office he told me the liar with the facts will dispute whether the subsidizing nations so small he nearly threw it backing

It is doubtful is understood that as the child was capital value of Canada by creat-story. I retell it here, not as much this conclusion. More than a themselves reap any net benefit again.

emergency landing-fields, because it is an epic (these are third of the total number of Bri- from the damage thus inflicted

literally from Halifax to the cheap. In Canada) as because it tish seamen are unemployed and on world shipping and world

Pacific. These will be invaluable might be of value as an example, when we are ready Ja large proportion of British ton-trade.

for a Trans- On Jan. 14 there arrived in The resulting excess of nage is more or less permanently tonnage reduces the freight earn-

Canada air line." A celebrity declares that

Kitchener twenty men. The New laid up.

All classes of shipping ings of all ships, and reduced rage helps a woman are affected, some of course more carnings call for larger subsidies, than others: and the organisa-disorganizing national Budgets on is to get off. tions representing its various as well as international trade. sections and the other interests Yet the practice is still growing. concerned have long been enden Recently there was a particularly vouring to devise remedies and to flagrant case in the joint subsidy press the needs of the industry granted to an Italian shipping Jupon the Government. If there line by the Italian and South

career.

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SPLICE OF LUCK.

mar-

transport them to it free.”

Better Than A Dole The General paused, reflected.

Tenderly be showed

me his

some size. Tie displayed it as the groundsman at Lord's might have displayed a perfect wicket; with

It sounded a good plan. It gave Year had found them without food, with her a chance

to the man who really tramping in the snow on the pave- The quickest way to get does feel desperate, who feels his menta of Calgary. So, despairing

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INTERLUDE. "Where's the waiter?"

"Serving what-time?" "Serving, sir."

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courage ebbing through idleness of salvation, they enrolled as volun- that is undesired. There are thou-teers. They said good-bye to the sands like that in England, men bunkhouses and soup kitchens, who would gladly work short time. The conditions of labour would in exchange for the dole, if only to have daunted most people. stop themselves from rotting. site of the proposed landing-ground

The

are still divisions of opinion over African Governments. There is My Idea, Anyway,

I left Ottawa with an open letter was two miles from the village. The many of the constructive sugges-now before the French Chamber

to 116 commandanta. For reasons forest was four feet under snow; tions which have been made, all an elaborate new scheme for lucky than born rich," says a writer;

"They say it is better to be born British Columbia.

of my own I chose to present it in the earth eighteen inches under ice. shipping men are agreed in de-financing mercantile shipping at "but when is a man born lucky?" should visit two camps: one in the When these were ready a further The temperature was 20 below zero. Now it seemed to me fair that I ploring the evil effects of

First they erected buildings. the the taxpayer's expense. But huge subsidies given by several there is no need to multiply ex- foreign countries to shipping and amples. That the evil is growing shipbuilding. The Government, is as evident as in its disastrous who are fully aware of the harm effect upon British shipping and caused by this practice, have en-upon all the vital national in-is to behave artificially. deavoured to get it abolished, or terests dependent upon shipping.

When he's born rich,

THOUGHT.

throes of construction, the other thirty men turned up, and loyalty Anished project. For the first Iar-to the enterprise began. The com- rived at Yahk, a small, dead vil-mandant fostered this, played it for The one thing girl do naturally isge enclosed by mountains, which all it was worth, made a unit from

a logging centre of the his fifty starvelings.

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commandant. In more prosperous In the old company buildings, near a disused mill, I found the

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NO (STRATOS—) PHERE! "Would you are to ascend twenty-

Facts You Did Not Know.

was once C.P.R.

days he had been in charge of the MORE CONVICTS FOR

"DEVIL'S ISLAND”

lumber. Now the

unemployed

a schoolmaster.

When visiting a school I rarely 280 Shipped From St.

listen to the headmaster. I go among the boys, study their còm- plexions, check their energy and ace how much they laugh when they fancy themselves alone. All these things I did at Yahk and, later, at Kitchener.

Martin-De-Re.

400 FROM NORTH AFRICA

Saint Martin-de-Re. "Bye-bye, see you again soon." This was the faunty remark

· ““Satisfied”?......“Sure!” The results were amazing. These of a convict to a crowd of on- men were happy. They sang about lookers when 280 convicts were the buildings, played baseball and shipped by the steamer Martin- soccer in their spare time, and ate lere for the penal settlements of incredibly. One man, whose bust-French Guiana,

at any rate restrained, by inter-It is equally evident that the M.P's Talk All Day on Beer." national agreement. They put practice will not be checked until well, so do, lots of other people, the case very plainly, though un-energetic measures of self-de- successfully, before the recent fence are taken by Great Britain World Conference, supported by and by other maritime nations Another Lie About Aberdeen. the representatives of Norway, which, like Great Britain, rely lishing up last year's gifts ready

In Aberdeen they are already po-gave him employment. Holland, and other countries for partly upon the revenue earned

I have been which the healthy development by their shipping to pay for the to send elsewhere. of the industry is of vital concern. goods which they import from The breakdown of the Conference other countries, including those Shopkeepers' Big Treat.. made it impossible to reach any very countries which are now de decision. Even if the Conference voting public money to the des had been able to continue its truction of the economic basis of work, the reception of the British the whole shipping industry. proposals showed clearly enough Recent declarations of Chambers five miles above the earth in an that the Governments which of Commerce show that the open balloon?" ' Inquires a news- make the most lavish use of sub-general trading community is bepaper article, aldies, to build up and maintain coming alive to the danger and mercantile fleets under their is beginning to realize that it national flags had no intention threatens not merely shipping whatever of abandoning the prae- but the whole structure of for tice. The subsidies to which ob-jeign trade. Suggestions have jection is taken are, of course, been made that, so long as this not those granted to maintain unfair competition continues, im-is designed to be inserted in a key-fied.

The bandle of a new bottle opener Iservices on routes which would porters and purchasers of im- hole to prevent the use of a skele- otherwise be neglected, but those ported goods should insist that, ton key from the opposite side of beds are good, and we're well look-vils Island." which are intended to enable the wherever practicable, the goods door. shipowners of the subsidy-giving should be carried In British ves-

ed after. All we need to make us Among them were, the four Governments to compete at an sele. Other remedies have been

millionaires is five dollars 1 men who recently, escaped from advantage on routes which are al-advocated which must also be a fuel are obtained in an Italian pressions of nearly all the men police a pretty dance before they Several chemical byproducts and

Nor was this bravado, The ex- Sontevrault prison and led the ready adequately served. eign Governments are, it is estimeantime it is clear that the heretofore wasted after extraction trials of competition were over, capade marched down from the

Forgiven consideration. In the factory from the pulp of grapes, were contented. They felt, and were recaptured, mated, spending something like necessity of defending British

many said openly, that for them thê Lenio, the ringleader in the es- [£80,000,000 a year in promoting shipping against this form of at-

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They had reached the haven of a citadel with a swagger, with one- enor in all future, negotiations for

certain type of mentality, They hand negligently placed on his mously to accentuate the glut of commercial

More than 105,252,000 pairs of bad enough to eat and smoke, hip, he addressed the crowd, "Yes shipping, which in any case trading agreements with foreign rubber were produced in the United brooding, and most important of Three among the convica mur

Agreements and boots, shoes and slippers other than enough work to keep them from I am Lanlo, jeune premleri would have been an inevitable countries. Subsidies of the kind States in the first four months thia all, somebody to do their thinking, dered their employers, One man consequence of the decline in In-against which the Government year. ternational trade. In spite of protested at the World Confer

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Iness was to sweep out camp, laugh- A throng of curious people ed when I asked if they ware satia peered over the shoulders of the troopa lining the quay as the men Sure," he said. "Food's good, marched by on their way to "De-

I stayed in Yahk three days. In killed his mother and set fire to

Uis cause of knowledge. I raised his home

much strapping the gross ton-ence are an much a form of flag British Interests have developed nage of the world's steam and discrimination as any of the a new radio tube that uses a cop motor shipping is to-day nearly other practices against which per container in place of the fifty per cent, greater than It was shipping is carefully protected tomary glass tube, this container dumped into the river, There was Africa, the ship took 675 convicte in 1914, although there is a in exlating agreements, acting as the anode.

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blisters on my hands confurtog The Martiniere is bound first rocks out of the ground. These for Algiers, where she will pick were rolled on to trolleys, and un 400 more convicts from North

a good deal of laughter and verbal last September Beuter.