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40 cents per dozen for empty bottles returned.

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Casserolis

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HERE

THERE

EVERYWHERE

"Red Biddy,

Caledonis is becoming sterner-

and wilder than ever. The rea

soh is the continued spread of

TUESDAY MARCH

ROOSEVELT AT WORK

AND AT

AT HOME

ENJOYS UNQUESTIONING TRUST OF NATION

methylated spirit drinking, which FULL OF FIGHT AND HUMOUR

is becoming such a serious social problem that Glasgow Town Coun- cil has been seeking the co-opera Hon of Dundee, Edinburgh and Aberdeen to make a general attack upon this curse.

*

Valentine Williams.)

Washington. the British Empire, the friendly All roads lead to Washington and encouraging tone of which, I

:

Burg-

During 1932, 585 bersons were prosecuted for drunkenness today. In the space of few short rather, contrasts rather sharply months the Federal capital has be- with what the President deplores- thought to have been caused by drinking "Red Biddy-methylated come the busiest city in the United as the "Judicrous misrepresenta- |States. One man's rime Ison tions of his policy in the greater spirits mixed with cheap red wine

part of the British Press lu: Glasgow compared with 354 every lip.

In the United States to-day Pre- Any preconceived iden" of "Roïse= during 1931.

Evidently that city regards thesident Roosevelt's personal prestige velt as a dangerous Radical or a present position as serious, for is a formidable thing. He has suc-drawing-room Socialist is dispelled Glasgow is proposing that methy-ceeded in capturing the imagination in the first five minutes with him. lated spirits should only be sold of his fellow-countrymen to an ex- Any notion that he is the willing by fully qualified chemists, and tent which has in a large measure instrument of a pack of bare that the name and address of blotted out the dividing the be-brained professors will not survive. My personal impression of him is of every purchaser should be neted, tween Republican and Democrat.

He is the prophet-leading the man who, with both feet firmly as in the case of polsone!..

people out of the desert. That such planted on the ground, is conscious an, immense majority is content to of his own limitations, and Commands 800 Doctors

trust him blindly bring them mons to his aid counsellors to ad- Major-General Hartigan, who safely, to the Promised Land is, a vise him on matters with which he bas been appointed Director- tribute to one of his greatest quali- is necessarily unfamiliar,...). general of Army Medical Services, ties. his knowledge of human na-He is very definitely master of his Administration. Even among in place of Lieut-general Sir ture. Harold Fawcus, is the same age] The cardinal note of the Prest-his intimates there is. as his predecessor. He was a dent's character is his simplicity. professes to be able to read his feHow-student with him at Dur-To meet and talk with him is to mind. He keeps his own counsel: realise that his simplicity is not a and nobody, they tell me, in so adept ham University,

Later they served together as pose, that when he asks, "Well, and as he in saying nothing when he so in South how do you find things going?""he|Wills. It is his habit to make de R.A.M.C. lieutenants. Africa. Between them they won is genuinely interested in checking cisions, even the most important, Queen's Medals with seven and his own impressions by the impres- firmly and promptly; but there is nothing impulsive about, his cafin The China Mail controlling under one organiza. King's Medals with four clasps. sions of others.

been entrusted a and reflective manner. It suggests. The post is an administrative tion the whole production and one. Its occupant does not prac-greater volume of Irresponsible that he acts only after mature re- trade of a country so vast LS

tise, although he is invariably a power than any American Presi-fection;" Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 27, 1934. Russia. The method adopted to qualified man. He has under him dent in history has enjoyed, and he The man's outstanding trait Is put British trade with this more than 800 doctors and 100 has launched forces of immeasur- his courage, The quality of Roose- monopoly on a more equitable dentists, a well as nurses and able stigth and unpredictable in-velt's pluck is shown by his refuzat.... basis is a generalization from orderlies.

fluence; yet he has no attitudes of to let himself be mastered by the the super-man, no false pride, and. attack of infantile paralysis which before all things, no false modesty and him low soon after the Armis- What you find, when you call tice. Without repining for a upon him at the White House, is a career, for a busy, athletic life, ap- pleasant, placid men, full of fight|parently hopelessly, broken, he set and laughter. In almost his open himself to work, to re-educate his-

FIRST FLOOR SHOWROOMS.

WHITEAWAY

LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

Trade With Russia.

To him has

ing sentence you realise that he limbs, Your Daily Smile.

actually is what he appears to be-

a good Ameri a taking off his coat to tackle big job confided to

none who

White House And Its"

theVast, Mail

In pain and helplessnesk he learnt

political meeting last him, and quietly determined to make patience and an infinite compassion

A sort of Boo's Who.

TOO LATE

a go of it.

for suffering humanity To an im

|stipulations in the recent trade His duties includes advising the A new chapter in the develop- agreements with the, Scandina-Army Council on such diverse sub- ment of mutual trade between vian and other countries. There jects as diet, the cut of uniforms Great Britain and Russia will be were objections to endeavouring and method of sanitation, as well opened by the recent ratifica-to pledge the Soviet Government as ordinary medical work." tion of the new trade agree- to buy definite quantities of ment. It promises to be much specific goods, or to obtain from: more satisfactory than that British sources, definite propor- which was closed so abruptly last tions of particular supplies, or to These Names Make Noise **

A list of hecklers' names was April, for the agreement provides use British shipping for a speci what was hitherto lacking-afied proportion of their trade. taken at a

week. real equivalent on the other side The purposes in view, it was felt,

His manner is direct and very for

frank, his laugh a joyous about with patient office-seeker he said recent the most-favoured-nation would be better served by a gen treatment granted to Russia injeral undertaking to work towards

head flung backward, his smile ten-y, "Do you realise that I spent two Lative and singularly attractive years in bed learning to wiggle one Henceforth an approximate equal balance, the British market.

the attainment an increase of trade between the through

of A husband in Wisconsin shot his one feels he is the type of man who, toa? In my judgment, it is this wife in the middle of spring-clean-all through bis life, has. made, almost passionate commiseration of two countries can hardly fail to which shipping, the fishing in-

ing.

friends without difficulty wherever his for the inarticulate masses be of benefit to both. There will dustry, the engineering trades,

Fooll. Why didn't he shoot her he goes.

The Forgotten Man," In the be an end of the fear that Rus-and other exporting interests

| phrase he colned-which is at the Keeping Healthy isian trade. in Great Britain will all stand to benefit. There before she had begun!

root of the radical changes - he is need here to recall

Tall, broad-chested and muscu-effecting in the whole structure of merely provided the Russian

the controversies over Russian The Yes-man At Home.

lar, a little heavy through years of government and finance in this coun Communists with funds, 8 timber, Russian wheat, and A y-e-es-my-love man.

a crippling illness, he looks comfortry, a paga small part of which might, be Russian butter, Whatever view

table in the grey, loungé sult hang- There is something more. He spent in the home country, but

be taken of what has

ing locsely on the big frame-like and Mrs. Roosevelt are probably most of which as a matter of occurred in the past, there

An Englishman has discovered a so many Americans, he prefers to the first persons on this vast con- fact was spent elsewhere, some can be ho doubt that the process which enables the invisible discard his waistcoat. A daily tinant to obtain a true and compre

may

no

NEGATIVE RESULTS

of it even in financing subversive Russian Government was able, to be photographed. and anti-British propaganda. So whenever it was so minded, to long as

swim in the pool at the White hensive picture of the whole sum of I'm longing to see a snap of my House, the gift of the American

human misery which the depression public, keeps him in fine physical brought in its train. Their mill- shape. For one who carries on his the largest in the history of the shoulders such a tremendous burden White House-has thrown a flood of responsibility he looks astonish-of light on this epic of human suf- ingly, fit

fering.

BAUGHTYCULTURE Gardening in our suburb,

QUALIFICATION:

If the United States officially ad~| A woman likes man with a mitted an aristocracy. Franklin De-

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branch of the family which the

COURT BAILIFF "Factory Owner Says His Factory genius of his cousin, the late Theo-

Is An Eyesore."

dore Roosevelt, fint made world- › STEALS FRAMES. famous-well-to-do and established Ezzyy

He hates the site of work.

SOVERHEARD

Madam, the fastalment man

again."

that danger existed, sell its products at a price which bank balance. every development of Russian made illusory any preferenvee trade was bound to be looked given to the Dominions or any.

But it is protection giyen to the British upon with suspicion.

farmer. There was ample war- impossible .to keep a great

Irant for the safeguarding provi country like Russia in

4sion inserted in the Ottawa isolation ward. The practical agreement with Canada. The good head on his shouldera-solano Roosevelt would unquestion- problem is not whether Bri-difficulty was to reconcile the long as it isn't another woman's.ably be of it He comes from a tain should trade with Eussja, pledge thus given with the most- but how to find a satisfac favoured-nation principle, upon tory basis for trade with which the Russian negotiators a country in which all foreign not unnaturally insisted. Rús trade, and indeed all commerce sia is to be given most favoured-

for generations on the banks of the Leniency Plea Receives Hudson. He has the poise and and all production, are a State nation treatment, but as regards any particular commodity this

$16 Fine. monopoly.

charming manners which birth and In dealing with s

good breeding, bestow, but also the a monopoly on so huge a scale in- may be suspended on three

months notice if the Russian here

same strong sense of duty and a Chan Sik, a balliff employed in dividual firms are inevitably at prices are such as to frustrate

certain inborn - shrewdness seen lathe Supreme Court, was fined $16, * a hopeless disadvantage, com-the preferences given to the

men like Palmerston, and Salfa- In: default-two weeks' -imprison-- peting, as they must, for busi-Dominions or to be detrimental

bury, recruited into statesmanship ment, by Mri Q. A. A. MacFadyen ness with one another as well as to production in Great Britain,

from the ranks of the aristocracy, at the Central, Folice. Court this, with their rivals abroad. In and if negotiations during the

* He has a mind which, li con- moj ng for the stealing of two. the agreement just concluded three months, interval fail to

To safe material and provide a tinually absorbing and storing away

ued at $t, from an endeavour is made to counter lead to a settlement. Under narrow chassis for an automobile or information.) "for a future of use. Wellington Street, Last Sun- act that disadvantage by stipu- this provision any attempt at standard width, an English designer Washington, had forgotten that all lating that the proceeds of Hus dumping could be stopped before has combined the mid guards with through the Wilson Administrati

appeared for permanent damage was done and the rear doors. elan sales in Great Britain shall would involve the risk of pro

for ma unblemis be spent in Great Britain in longed exclusion, from the mar gradually, ~ increasing proportion ket. It is the more likely to until an approximate equality of prove effective since Russia must found that the payments is attained between the be as anxious as are other pro- bolt carries about 25,0 two- untries, including of ducers: nötato depress prices to pere compared course, both

by

"Tell him to have a chair.”

Facts You Did Not

Know.

Pennsylvania" electrici,

Ibió uneconomic, levels. *- With these peres used to start electri

11. main difculties" overcome there

is a real possibility, given good

will and Food faith on both sides,

that the tradin

nabe

there was chiel "amang @them takin' notes” in the person out) dashing young Assistant Secretary

Mr. Peter Bin

of the Navy Department. Back at t Washington he has revealed that he Bur known every

the gan

He is the

ghly

Chi Job.