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The Philippines.

of these countries the Philip-

fidel." The Spanish, following in

HERE, THERE

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Police Lose Two-Year Battle Montreal police have abandoned their two-year battle to rid the city of slot machines.

Baulked in their efforts to prove the machines are illegal by a recent |legal decision, the police have decid- ed to license all logitimately-operated machines in Montreal,

The legal decision ruled that alot machines were not gambling devices when used to sell sweets, chewing gum or other merchandise..

MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1934.

"ROOSEVELT HOLDS THE BALANCE"

NO THOUGHT OF FAILURE AMONG CITIZENS

INDIVIDUALISM

LESSENS

(By R. H. Bruce Lockhart.)

AS Shakespeare says, haff alThere are critics among the ban- loaf is better than nokers and business 'men who talk bread, and der ain't no use in of Roosevelt's lucky break and kickin'!"

who maintain that the present"re-

This was the succinct estim-covery is due to a natural trade As a result of this many of the ate of recovery given to me by cycle and that it has been imped- alot machines that have been de- a Jewish taxi-driver, as he drove ed rather than accelerated by the clared illegal by Mr. F. La Guardia,me to the Berengaria after my Roosevelt experiment.

the Mayor of New York, may be five-weeks lecture-tour in the Thère. are critics like ex- transferred to Montreal. It is States.

Governor Phil La Follette, who

stated that there is no way to stop The estimate reflects the aver-think that he has not been pro New York manufacturers from ship age view. If 1929 is the stand-gressive enough and who say that ping the machines to Montreal ard of recovery, America has still the only result of the Roosevelt through legal trade channels and a long way to travel. If the yard-revolution has been to make the distributing them throughout the stick is 1932, she has already ac-millionaires class-conscious. Some city.

complished a miracle.

of his intimate advisers, too, hold already arrived from New York or veral thousands of miles, talked to that to everyone whom he receives Chicago. They were seized by the scares of bankers, professors, he gives an impression of agree- [police as gambling apparatus. but business men, officials and eming even when there is no agree- were later declared legal, and were ployees, received a hospitality ment in his mind. But there is no fordered to be returned to their such as I have never met with pre-one who does not admit that if Jowners.

viously (even in Russta), and col-there, were an election to-morrow Then the police attempted to provelected a mass of impressions. Roevelt would still sweep tant they were smuggled Into Cana-i Certain conclusions stand out eduntry.

One shipment of 400 machines has During my tour I travelled se- that he sees too many people and

the owners of the machines pro-is the American attitude towards

Canadian

Half-way across they came to

plorer Magellan, added the Philip-blown clear of snow), over which|

the

There is considerable talk of

da, but were again defeated when very clearly. And clearest of all "Roosevelt Revolution" [duced papers showing that they had Europe and towards war. I visu-the Roosevelt revolution, and even been imported from the United alise no American adventuree in in society a certain amount of in- States legally.

Europe in our time, Jn foreign tellectual Socalism. These socie- affairs the United States has gone ty Radicals are known as Parlour '3000 Reindeer Stampede back to the policy of Washington, Pinks. They add a kick to their Canada's plans for supplying the whose famous dictum, "It is

our cocktails with the bitter of Mr. true policy to steer clear of al-John Strachey's academic meat have

Com- Spain and the Anglo-Saxon cul-Empire with reindeer

Jiances with any portion of the munism. ture of America. In the pre-hada sel-back.

But the pink is very pale, and Spanish days the Islands, formed

The herd of 3,000 reindeer, which foreign world," was reproduced on Hong Kong. Monday, April 30, 1934part of Malayan empires, al-for the past four years have been his birthday in scores of American by Communism the Americans un- As for taking part derstand something quite different trekking from Alaska to the Muc-newspapers. though earlier still, before the kenzie River district to form the in another European war, the idea from the European brand. influx of the Malays, they were nucleus of the industry, hasis repugnant to the whole nation. To the foreign visitor, however, inhabited by the black, woolly-stampeded on the last lay of its one shrewed observer said to the most interesting aspect of the headed pygmies called negritos.journey.

me, "We went into the last war situation is the struggle between Recent developments in con- Then came Indonesian immigra Last April the reindeer reached to make the world safe for demo- the individualists and the planned fection with the Japanese "Mari-.

tion, and the Hindu civilisation the western bank of the Mackenzie cracy. We shall take no part in economists. Rugged individualism time Plan" of expansion south-i wards have again brought to the vete the natives the arts of River, less than 70 miles from their the next war to make the world has had and is still having

rough time, and for the moment fore the need to realise the writing and simple crafts. In destination, where the herdsmen safe from democracy."

The extent and permanence of the bankers and big business men the south around the Sulu Sea decided to halt owing to the fawn-1.

recovery are more difficult to cal- have lost caste. The bankern, eß~ significance of events in what!

Arabian traders converted the ing season. has been aptly termed, in the

Now they have attempted to cross culate. Certainly, as a visitor, pecially, are suffering from "an- pagan Moros into warlike and

one sees few outward signs of de- gina Pecora," and the success of light of changes in the balance of

aggressive" Mohammedans, and the frozen river.

pression. Neither in New York such books as "The Robber Ba- power there this century, "the!

the strength of this Arabic in-

On one side the herdsmen urged

Bor in Chicago did I find any of rous" and "Whe Rules America?" new Pacific." An understanding!

the reindeer on. On the other a fluence can be gauged by the

that aggressive begging which I has been remarkable. the representative of of Pacific countries has become

[resistance of the southern Government waited anxiously. But had been Jed to expect. The The more imperative than ever, and islanders to the American "in-the reindeer never arrived.

planned economists Are theatres and the night-clubs were confident that what they now call packed. Nearly everywhere there "rugged" individualism has gone pines are becoming increasingly the footsteps of the great ex-large patches of glare" ice (ice was a new atmosphere of hope. forever. They say that for the jimportant, both economically as

There is, of course; another side first time America has become po- an undeveloped market for many

to his picture. The stili vast litically-minded, that at last the types of goods, and strategically pines to the Spanish Empire in they could make no progress. The army of unemployed. Relations social conscience of the nation has

are been awakened, as "the pickets of the East the sixteenth century, and the herdsmen made desperate attempta between capital and labour

They talk glibly, natives of Luzon and the neigh-to urge them on, but 48 hours inter This archipelago of over three houring islands

were converted a blizzard sprang up and the entire pregnant with unsolved difficulties, of the transition from the econo-

The farmers of Middle West thousand islands lies midway beto Christianity, with the exception herd stampeded back to their

are mice of scarcity to the economics sullenly discontented. Moreover, of plenty, and point to a golden tween China and Japan to the

of the head-hunting tribes of the grazing grounds.

much of the outward prosperity of north and Netherlands India to

It is now too late in the season the big cities is obviously due to

(Continued on Page 11). the south, with Australia and mountain interior. To-day the to attempt another crossing of the.

inhabitants of the Philippines Mackenzie River until it freezes repeal, which has given # new New Guinea close to Borneo,]

thus divided into are

three again in the late autumn of this

lease of life to hotels and places! Java, and Sumatra; whilst ourį

of entertainment. mountain year. own Hong Kong and Singapore tribes, still clinging to their pri-

peoples, the, pugan

In Industry, again, the chief re- and the French Indo-China lie

vival has been In Detroit. where mitive culture, the Mohammedan close to the west. From Europe |

Your Daily Smile! Moros, and the Ghristianised and India it stands in the gute-

cars has been stimulated by a na- natives, to whom the word Call an Ambulance. way to the Far East. Its area Filipinos is usually applied, and

tural process of exhaustion. In a "Cup of tea, weak," said a cus- country where an automobile is a of 115,000 square miles only su who, forming the great bulk of tomer at a London coffee stall. necessity and not a luxury, many ports a population of thirteen!

the population, proudly refer to When the decoction was brought Americans have not bought a new millions, and it has rich agricul-

themselves as the only Christianto, him he eyed it critically. car for four years. And Detroit tural and mineral resources nation in the Orient. In 1930] "Well, what's wrong with it? is now the centre of the

A Ane of $50, in default awaiting deveopment. It is

the Roman Catholic Church held You said weak, didn't you?"

month's hard labour, was, imposed. serious labour troubles, Florida, significant that in 1898 the Ger-

"Weak, yes," was the reply, "but too, which has had its best season Q. A. A. MacFadyen at the Central Its Eucharistic Congress

on Lam Kat, unemployed, by Mr. man Emperor and his Chancellor Manila as a signal recognition of not 'elpless."

since the days of prosperity, owes Police Court this morning, for 88- agreed that whoever owned the this triumph of the Cross in the

its influx of visitors, partly, to Philippines would have control East. The adaptability of the Day of Doom. of the Pacific. That year Amer-Filipinos as a race has been Flo-"I don't intend to be mar kept Americans at home, and, Chu, in Bonham Strand East early ica captured Manila, and succeed-proved not only by their zealous ried until I'm thirty." ed Spain as the Sovereign of the adoption of the religion of their Islands. The recent offer of in-panish conquerors, but also by ty until I'm married!" dependence to the Filipinos by their ready assimilation of Anglo-

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LOCAL CONSTABLE ASSAULTED.

the increased demand for motor Unemployed Chinese Im

most

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Desperate Fight.

POLICEMAN BITTEN,

опе

the fall of the dollar. which has aulting a Chinese constable, Li

partly, to the neurity of the win- yesterday morning.

Rea-"I don't intend to be thir-ter, which has sent the pneumo Accused was caught peeping nie-dodgers in search of sunshine, through the doora of shops in this

street, and' when he was approach-. Rich Families Ruined

ed by the constable He put up a the United States Congress may Saxon ideas of freedom and.res- C'est La Guerre

In the ponsible government.

Paul Gallico, the sports writer, Nevertheless, although recovery violent fight. During the struggle mean the cessation of American Pacific generally, the clash of cut- says the fact that Carnera trains is still perhaps more a hope than Li Chu received a broken nose, sovereignty, and the with-

ture and colour has proved dis-on garlic, was perfectly obvious to a reality, and although many while accused sustained head, in- drawal of the American guard astrous to the native races. In everybody at the ringelde in Flo- once-rich families have been rain-juries. Accused bit the con- over auch a key position in the the islands of Melanesia and rida recently. But the early re-ed by the alump, there was no lack stable's left hand and secured bir Pacific may affect the future of Polynesia 'depopulation has been ports of the fight gave us the im-of spending, and I came away truncheon to strike him all Pacific countries. It thus be widespread. But the Filipinos. pression Carnera beat Loughran with the impression that to many back. hoves all people to have some like the Maoris, have flourished fairly and aquarely under the people depression had meant little Sergeant Slater stated that' ec- knowledge of the history and culturally and numerically. Like Marquis of Queensberry rules. more than keeping two Rolls-cused was so desperate that he character of the people of the the Japanese, they are

Royces instead of thren and lay-had to be carried 100 yards on the Philippines and the idiosyncrasies of swiftly absorbing the alien

Oriental people, with the power A Bad Guess.

ing up the yacht. The debreastun way to the station.

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A wita paid a surprise visit to has produced even a new million Accused ́ ́ asked " for

on the

of their culture. These subjects civilisation of the Occident. In her husband's office, and, creeping aire-Mr. Floyd B, Odlum,, an, un-money to go, to Singapore, pnasäge Jare also of great intrinsic inter the short space of thirty-five up behind him, put her hands over pretentious good-looking man of

eat, and bear cupon such wider years they have shown rapid his eyes,

42, with no frills and a, taste for

and absorbing problems as the progress by an eager response to "Guess who it is?" she asked advanced Liberals, Mr. Olum clash of cultures in the Pacific, the opportunities for education gleefully,

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MUSHROOMS STOLEN

One hears little talk of Demo-

For stealing half a catty or |crats, and Re-publicans, and poll-{dried mushrooms, from No. 85, Hical conversation is concentrated Queen's Road West yesterday, LF on the personality of President Ng was sentericed to 10 days' harðf Roosevelt, who has captured the labour, by Mr. Q. A. A. MacFadyen ::

|now controls the Iargest Invest- the struggle of civilisations, the and democracy generously prof "Stop fooling," was the reply, ment, trust In the world. expansion of religions, and the fered by America. Three weeks and get on with these letters!" Intricate questions of colour and after the American army of oc- race contact. In the Philippines geven schools were opened in the A British boxer has become

cupation had entered Manila, BULLDOG BREED we have the unique spectacle of

jelty. To-day, under a system of landscape gardener. He is evident an Eastern people who have been universal education, the schools ly determined to lay out some-imagination of the man in the at the Central Magistracy thie brought successively under the contain over a million children, thing." sovereignty and direct influence and the University of the

of two variant types of Western Philippines, has enrolled 7,000 "Maytaly: Buying Jewels Again" civilisation, the Latin culture of students..

Tiara-boom-de-

strent to an extraordinary degros, morning. An order was also Although the Brain Trust has toode for the accused to ho sent had plenty of abuse, criticism of back to Sheliki, from whence, be: the President is still guarded, originally came.