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HERE THERE

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Early To Bed

The Turkish Minister of the

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all places. of entertainment, to

close at 11 p.m.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

WHY ROOSEVELT WAS APPLAUDED

SIGNIFICANT POINTS IN PRESIDENT'S SPEECH

The object is to preserve the AMERICAN SENTIMENT REVEALED

health of the Turks by sending them to bed before midnight.

The greatest offender against! Chukri Bey's order will probably be the Dictator, Mustapha Kemal.

His all-night parties in Angora begin at sunset and continue until apon the next day. The guests play bridge, drink champagne and dance to music provided by an Armenian jazz band. No guest dare leave until the host shows signs of fatigue. Since his con- stitution is of iron that rarely happens.

(By Irving Fisher.)

[Mr. Truing Fisher, Professor of Political Economy at Yale University, explains in this article what parts of President Roosevelt's speech to CongTESS stand out to those who are in close touch with the situation.]

President says, there is an align= ment forming "between those to whom recovery means, a return to old methods-and the number of these people is small-and those for whom recovery means a reform of many old methods, a permanent readjustment of many of our ways- of thinking, and therefore of many Festerday. shortly after noon, of our social and economic arrange

New York, Jan. 4.

This hospitality has frequently the President addressed Congressments."

The President confines his mea- proved too much for some of his in person. The occasion was not- able for several reasons: first be- diplomatic guests.

cause President Roosevelt is revert sage for the most part to general-- ing to the example set by Presidentities, leaving to future messages the

particulars. Explaining Themselves Wilson to deliver his message in

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It is nothing new for publishe:5 person to a joint session, which But Congress has already gond to put ex-Prime Mininters into goes back to the early days of the over many details and these gen- harness, but one never hears of Republic.

eralities are exactly what they now.

their turning a reigning Govern- It is, the first time in history need lest they fall to see the wood ment to the task of book produc- that a regular session has come at for the treas: and they will serve tion.

New Year, thanks to the Twentieth as a guide to the detailed legisla- It has happened now.

Amendment to the Constitution tion which is to follow. The Russian Government. at changing the assembling date of Probably the foreign public, and Messrs. Gollancz's "request and regular session from December to to some extent the American public, commission," are to explain their January). As with the special were disappointed not to have more activities in a series of books. session last spring, the proceedings detailed explanations of the Presi

There will be 12 of them. They were broadcast.

dent's gold and silver policies, and will deal with the way in which Presumably many English people disappointed that he did not an- various departmenta

Soviet listened in. of

nounce a definite decision as to activity deal with their everyday

As they may have noted, the devaluation of the gold dollar. work.

Each will be written by President drew most applause when The fact that so long a message reach the tency

may be doubted. Some an expert especially commissioned he said "child labour in abolished," was needed merely to Cambridge scholar,

to by the Soviet Government.

and referring to debts due to the high spots of the new deal is itself add glory to his college, buries The first few volumes will an United Stater from other countries: a commentary on the vast extent of Bong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 3, 1934. Anaxagoras at Cambridge. Isn't per this month.

"One nation — Finland → has paid the programme сп which the it likely that some other scholar,

the instalments due to this country President has embarked, carrying further to advance that glory,

in full," and drew remarkably little Congress and the country with him. applause when he referred to the

Fourteen "High Spots" repeal of the Prohibition Amend-

These high spots include: ment.

First, the N.R.A, asking business All three are significant of

men to surrender the licence to do While the American sentiment. vaat majority voted for the repeal as they please in exchange for pro-

tection against exploitation. The Horribly Rich Man who ing amendment (the twenty-first).

Second, the policy of purchasing

eager

Pythagorist Cambridge. buried Pythagoras there? In days

Your Daily Smile.

when mythical descents from an- Why She Married Him They little know of England cient heroes, themselves perhaps As a husband he didn't quite fill

The mythical, were regarded as his-the bill, but he did foot the bill. and torical and proved, there For nothing incongruous in the trans-

was

who only England know, right name of that green pleasant land is Anomalia.

ference of the two philosophers. and curious instance 1 correspondent of The London Merton College at Oxford

a new

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had Never Seen a Horse joined the/there is no enthusiasm now, as we all gold and silver produced in the

realise that this does not solve the

transforms it.

Times is to be thanked. Under long disposed to "claim every- Bolivoir Hunt. the direction of the Bursar and thing." It enumerated Roger "If only," soliloquished the Fox, age-old liquor problem, but merely United States and some gold abroad Fellows of Merton College, Ox-Bacon, Duns Scotus and William watching his Antics, "If Only 1 ford, the School of Pythagoras of Ockham among its graduates, Could Keey as and Merton Hall at Cambridge on purely legendary grounds: Hounds as that Fellow Door!"

and John Wycliffe's place in the has been rebuilt. How does { famous old Oxford college come roll is more than a little doubt-

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to secure a broader metallic base The applause evoked by little and "eventually a medium of ex- Finland's paying in full reflects the change which will have over years prevalent sentiment that the inter-less variable purchasing and debt. Governmental debts are just and paying power for our people than should be paid to the uttermost that of the past," deferring the farthing.

[stabilisation · of international ex. Those of us who are cancella-change until the several nations are tionists are few and far between, ready. and their arguments

Third, bank deposit Beem to the general public far-fetched. As just going into effect. Fourth, re- Secretary Wallace has said: lief to farm and home owners as America is a creditor nation, but against fors-closures. Fifth, the has a debtor psychology."

Auricultural Adjustment Adminis. Di When we think in terms of money tration to balance overproducing It's a Scottish parent that "No's insfat un debts being paid. But agriculture against under-consuming

when we think in terms of goods industry..

Sixth planned we insist on preventing payment by

flood control, la high tarift.

water power development, and land' We want to sell more and more policies. Seventh, monomy and

the

Order in Court!

"And," said the judge in dentist's chair, "do you swear that you will pull the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth?"

to be meddling with Cambridge? ful. Whoop it up for dear old Matrimony In A Nutshell How did Pythagoras, a believer Soandso! The two philosophers in the transmigration of souls, may be taken as symbolic of the come to transmigrate in the mathematical and scientific body to Cambridgeshire? Walter nown of Cambridge. Pythagor of Merton began to found his as's Farm and the School of Py- Oxford College in 1266. In 1278 thagoras endear themselves to he bought the land and the eye and ear. Stone House of the Dannings at. ¡Cambridge. For "political rea- sons" he had to provide a house there for certain scholars whom The would have preferred to es.

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Ninth disarmament Tenth, the gangster

and buy less and less, thus acquir-budgeting. Eighth, South American Second Eminent Surgeon: Ap-ng a so-called "favourable" balance emity and the surrender of im

of trade, but piling up still further perialism. pendicitis operations mostly,

the debt due to us from abroad. agreement. And when, on top of it all, we problem. stop the lending, there comes a

Eleventh, predatory wealth and' breakdown. This had much to do misuse by Wall Street of other with depression on both sides of people's money. Twelfth, unemploy the Atlantic.

ment relief. Thirteenth, consumer protection.

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{tablish at the other university. Changes in quantity and quali- For more than six centuries and ty of population are main fac- a half the Oxford college has tors in all Britain's national pro- clung to Its Cambridge property, blems-economic, social, Merton Hall seems never to have political. Some of the different been used as a college, except in forces at work were vividly sum- the years 1872-74, when Miss marised recently by Sir Percy Clough, sister of the poet, occu-Jackson, His estimate is that pied it with fourteen women in 1937 there will be half students. She described it million fewer children at school "a rambling old house, buried than there are to-day, by 1948 a million fewer. That brings be- among apple trees in a large garden on the edge of the town."fore the public the broad fact It proved too small, In 1875 that for some time to come there Newnham Hall was built, follow-will be a demand upon the schools they grow older." Well, there's ed by Newnham College in 1880, and thereafter upon the labour Renerally more to keep quiet about. Up to the nineteenth century market which must subsequently Walter of Merton's Cambridge decline fast. The cause is two- premises were occupied by fold-the large rise in the birth farmers who lived in the house rate immediately after the war, and used the old Stone House as the steady and still continuing a.barn. For most of the time fall during the last ten years, since the house has been a pri- The most urgent problem is vate residence. In the fourteenth that of dealing with the increas century it was "commonly calling numbers of young people For precision timing a camera

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Fourteenth, the co-operation of The President Wag evidently the axecutive and ·legislativa thinking of how to solve this branches of our Government tangled problem of internations! duly separated by our constitution trade, debts and tariffs, when helas contrasted with the English.. said: ""Furthermore, all of us aro ́His and· President: Wileon's ope seeking restoration of commerce in pearances before Congress in, per- ways which, will preclude the build-son were evidences of this recurring· ing up of large favourable trade desire of the White House to get Para-balances by any one nation at the together with Congress.

expense of trade debits on the part

Facts You Did Not Know.

Exportation of wool from guay has been prohibited by government decree.,

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of other nationa.”

The abolition of child labour wan

product of the National Indus-

od Mertonhall." In Henry VIII's who, until 1987, will be seeking has been developed that can take trial Recovery Act, under which time John Leland, the anti-work. By the new Unemploy 2000 pictures a second

| each industry is working out fta] quary, speaks of its as the ment Bill it is proposed to pro

own "codes." This was, of course, "Scholas de Merton." War broke vide special instruction for them Jewelry and out between the partisans of two up to the age of 16 Sir Percy feminine sports costumes are being duced by our precedent breaking accessories for only one of many innovations intro- ex-Jackson object to this as costly, made from wood in Paris, visiting philosophers, or

President change professors, from Ionia which no doubt it is, and would

It seems that in 1464 John Her quire the building of schools

TEACHER'S HOUSE

BLOWN UP.

Suggested As Work Of Schoolboys

Belgrade.

In his first paragraph he sum- and Magna Graecia; The appel-prefer to raise the school-leave Mirrors that reflect as much as marises his whole outlook when be lation · "School of Pythagoras” Ing age. We cannot, however, si per cent of light are being pro- says that he wants Congress to join light awoke the people of A loud explosion and a flash of first appears on. Richard Lyne's accept his assurance that this duced by a new process.. with him "to continue the restoras Glushitch during the night plan of Cambridge made, in 1574, would be cheaper. It would re

tion of our national well-being and,

Gathering in the streets, they rison claimed that Anaxagoras and provision of teachers on a should be fully understood. After equally. Important, to build on the found that an attempt had been was buried at Cambridge. In scale for which, after a few a few years Britain shall have a ruins of the past a new structure made to blow up the house of 1568 John Cains quotes Herrison years, there would be no neod. very much larger proportion of designed better to meet the present the village schoolmaster. and refers to the "House of An- Burely the moment to raise the oldish people in the community. problems of modern civilisation." The door was lying about In.. axagoras, no doubt the same age is when the school popula. The modern prolongation of vinhis is his "new, deal" which, it splinters, the windows were building described by Lyne in tion falle below its temporarily our may obscure the effects of is gradually dawning on the coun- shattered and the walls cracked. 1574 88 "Domus Pythagoras swollen size After 1987, by all this change, but when the next try and the world, amounts to s A great quantity of explosive: The change from Anaxagoras" the evidence, Britain may : ex-

with populs revolution in industry, agriculture had been placed on the doorstep. ing as well as and finance.

and lit by a long fuse, Luckily, Ses provided with Message Of Generalities no one was injured, and Y.

become And the country, at first, a little. It is suggested that the to. de- dismayad, – is becoming convinced plosion was the work of schoole [cal] that the new deal. ome to stay boys wo had been' “ ploughed", ima Tace, and is glad of it, although, as the

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to "Pythagoras” must have been pecta a steady decrease in the fion acti inadvertent *** Charles" "I, in his number of school places required. confirmatory grant to ▼ Murton There is no prospect of any re- College of the manor of Came versal of the decline of the birth bridge, describes it as "Pythm, rate,. It is desirable that "- the goras's Farm". The Inadver- consequences - of" that "decline and