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WHERE THE BLUE EAGLE REIGNS SUPREME ROOSEVELT'S CHARM WINS

(By the Hon. D. W. Astor)

Every Budget night for many years he gave a dinner to which politicians and leading men fin

London. the system, but the.. purgatives finance and business were invited to TN early days the little village are slowly giving place to res

IN early days, the niti v call torative meet the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer.

Ted New. York, was protected on The Security Exchange Com- Mr. Samuel's locker at the House its north side by a wall designed mission has pleasantly surprised never held a Blue book. It was to exclude the Indians who roam-Wall Street by its moderation cigar cabinet. He enjoyed a good ed on the rest of the island of and helpfulness. Even the dread- cigar, and he delighted to give Manhattan. The line of theirjed Pecora and Landis are now cigars to his friends,

ramparts is now Wall Street, a considered intelligent and help His generosity to attendants at dark cleft in a mass of skyscrap-ful, while the chairman of the Every week-day morning Commission--a former operator the House was on a grand scale.ers. He would band out a ten-shilling an army of workers, as large in on the market is expected to nate to a messenger who brought numbers as the force Wellington have the common sense and lack one of his guests to him from an- required to attack Napoleon in of vindictiveness of a poacher jother part of the building. Spain, converges towards this turned game-keeper.

The Kitchen Committee will miss over-bullt, over-crowded tip of his custom. His dinner parties the Island of Manhattan. were a considerable source of re- The clerk and stenographer ar

venue.

The Workers' Day

not a

Your eating attitude varies He is Mr. to look at a few yards: range juniors who lunch in under- with your income, from the

To return to the Wall Street rive by the crowded foul under-workers' day. At noon the sky- ground, whose only advantage is scrapers disgorge their inhabit- FILM ACTOR POLITICIAN

that a 6 cent (21d.) fare will ants in relays to the American take you any distance you choose midday meal, which incidentally Putney, which Mr. Samuel repre- to go. Others come by the "El," continues to prove that a high

elevated sented since 1918, is a safe Conser the

railway which standard of cooking is vative seat. The Liberals are uu- jangles and meanders its way necessary part of a high stan-

dard of living. along likely to contest it.

thè legs fashionable The Socialists, however, have a avenues, enabling its passengers candidate in the field. Miles Mander, the film actor. He into the first-floor windows of was chosen as prospective candidate the East-side slums. Staten ground cellars for a few cents. about nine months ago. He is a Islanders and the inhabitants of to the vice-presidents and such brother of Geoffrey Mander, Samue New Jersey arrive by ferry boat, who ascend in non-stop express elevators to their panelled Lunch lite Liberal M.P. for East Wolver a few arrive by car along the,

Clubs on the sixtieth floors of... double-decked road that runs hampton. and be admitted to the League Mr. Miles Mander has not pre- along the West-aide. Speed boats skyscrapers.

Meanwhile, the down-town of Nations, an objection was viously contested a by-election, but from Long Island dash past Wel- raised that no state could be a he has directed a British film based fare Island and deposit their athletes at their club play a hur

then, dressed in a towel, a pair Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 1, 1934. member unless it had a clearly on one. It was called "The Woman passengers at the very foot of ried midday game of squash and

defined body of 'nationals." The Between." The story made, the Wall Street.

of glasses and a cigar, sit down. Dominion representatives under- Conservative and Socialist candi- Finally, a few seaplanes land plump, pink and perspiring to took to meet this requirement by dates rivals in love as well as in at the new raft thoughtfully their meal. But the topics of legislation, and one by one politicn.

provided for the use of the very conversation are changing. The they did so during the next half

rich by the Emergency Relief depression wiped out most of the Administration.

The China Mail

Irish Citizenship

Your Daily Smile!

Blue Eagle Predominates

We remarked a day or two ago dozen years; the qualification

get-rich-quick speculators and that it was of the utmost im-resting on birth, domicile, and

"high pressure salesmen," who portance in drafting the new naturalisation. In so far as A seaside deck chair has been Indian Constitution that words treland is only following that invented which folds and unfolds tice is the Blue Eagle displayed character to weather a storm.

amassed fortunes in the boom The first 1934 change you nowithout the necessary ability or should be strictly used and clear development, she is merely fill when a button is pressed. Fortunat the window of every business ly defined; and that it was most ing up a legislative gap; and undesirable that vague expres-there would be no new legal amusement, there are still the stout the existence not only of bankers familiar ideas; and new termino- ately for those who like a bit of house. This potent bird affects. Meanwhile the brokers of 1984 sions like "Dominion Status" status affecting the very gentlemen who attempt awallow and speculators, but of all this logy. The broker, now that the

should be used. The customary numerous men born in Ireland process of allowing freedom to who are living in other parts of "broaden down from precedent the Empire.

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are wallowing in a bog of un-

dives from the pler head.

army of city workers. Gone are the days of excessive hours for stock-market is restricted, has gone "commodity conscious," Business Index

clerks and typists; no longer can Clients are invited to buy wheat, to precedent" is only applicable

The controversy raged not on "How's business?" a passer-by a rich firm whose partners are cotton, shellac, eggs or pepper when there is an essential agree the legislation creating Dominion asked the old scissors grinder. ment on fundamentals and

"nationals" but on the position "Fine," he said. "I never saw things up till 2 a.m. The Bankers Code have risen some 60 per cent.

jmaking vast profits keep its staff

|"forward"--and as commodities large element of goodwill. If of the Crown. Englishmen 80 dull,"

of the N.R.A. now enforces a 40-money has been made.

Plural of "Whim"

a legal document is to be inter- were as usual engrossed in their preted "strictly" by two parties domestic politics, and would who are ready to fight for diverse probably be surprised to hear constructions of its words it does that there had been any such "If one whim is a whim,' what not serve the purpose of settling controversy. The Irish dele-would you call a lot of them?" anything The fact is that gates to the Imperial Conference "Dominion Status," as defined in argued that although the King

"Whimmen."

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(£7) a week or less, and means it.

Economist Is King ::

This year those of us who are The Administration whose in that category sign in on ar-policy it is to raise the price of rival and departure to satisfy primary products at all costs. our employer that we did not hesitates to curb the activities of

the "Statute of Westminster" is would be the same individual, Correspondence Course Graduate work less than seven hours a this bullish market. The change a new thing, and only the course he would have a separate juris- "My friend laughed when I spoke day, and the N.R.A. authorities is such that in one "customers' of years will establish whether diction in each of the Dominions, to the walter in French, but the that we did not work more room" the armchairs, which for- it is a source of strength or that is, he would be King of laugh was on him. I told the This is no empty formality: merly faced the ingenious com- weakness; already it is quite England in England, King of waiter to give him the cheque."-

When one of my colleagues had bination of ticker-tape and magic clear that it has different mean-Canada in Canada, and so on.

worked specially long hours on lantern which records stock ings in different parts of the That would at one stroke of the

some problem he was ordered a market prices. have been turned Empire, and in so elastic a compen have dissolved the Empire.

two days' holiday to compensate, to face. the commodity black bination of peoples and constitu No other delegates supported this! Mr. Sun Fo and

for otherwise the N.R.A. might board. tions that is not only natural but contention, and the Statute of Chung-hul, accompanied by of I must expain the development all puzzle over charts showing Dr. Wang "crack down" on the Bank The economist is king, and we possibly useful.

New Zealand Westminster embodies in unmis ficials, arrived in Shanghal yes of the phrase "erack down." It "Total Bank Deposits created by opposed the proposal on the takable terms the doctrine that terday. They will sail for Hong has come to mean in America the Government Spending," the little ground that under the old system the Royal Jurisdiction is one and Kong to-morrow. The two promin use she had no grievance at all; and indivisible. The result is to ent statesmen are expected to re powers by the Administration to economics now sit unread but

of irrelevant executive pamphlets of ` professors the argument that turned the grant the most complete self- turn to Nanking for the Fifth enforce its will on businesses honoured upon our desks and scale towards. acceptance was government without dissolving National Kuomintang Congress. that it would make no difference the Imperial unity. The grant

of

without going through the pro-we talk knowingly about infla In South Africa, where a fond to Ireland of her own Great Seal

cess of law. Mr. Ford refuses to tibn stocks, recovery stocks, ness for the niceties of legal went further than any

Mr. David Drummond, Oriental sign the Motor Industry Code; backlogs, commodities and in- other argument is a national charac- Dominion has asked for, but did Manager of the Canadian Pacific, he is refused permission to tender dices of inflation. teristic, the express recognition not upset the general doctrine Drummond, left the Colony yester

Steamships, Limited, and Mrs. for War Department contracts.

(Continuand on Page 10.) of what had for seventy years] Go where you will in the day morning by the R.M.S. Empress

Painful Readjustment been the actual practice in re Empire to-day you will find Irish of Asia.

When a waiters' strike has the gard to the old Cape Colony was

sympathy of the Mayor of New a great factor in removing elec-officials and politicians to whom the unity of citizenship is a very tion cries "that had kept races

Among the passengers on board York he sends Health Inspectors and parties apart, and, after useful privilege that is taken for the R.M.S. Empress of Asia, which to visit the hotel kitchens to When Mr. de Valera left here yesterday morning, were frighten hotel managers into sub- achieving on paper what must in granted. any case have been the rule in declares that after the Citizen- Mr. L. G..S. Dodwell, Sub-Maneger mission by injunctions and sani- action there has been a distinct ship Bill becomes law, nobody, in Dndwall and Company Limited, tury orders. For some time now tendency towards co-operation. the Irish Free State will be a and Mrs. Dodwell (marked not only by General British subject he is either Smuts's declaration that the misstating the position, if the future must see the tendency of Bill is drafted on the usual lines, the previous generation, reversed.or indicating an entirely new

MANCHUKUO

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Ireland has not reached that reason to complain that our News stage, nor yet shown any inclina information about the latest Services, which deluge us with tion to halt in the march to self- Hollywood divorces, should leave sufficiency and Independence, but in the dark about so impor has not yet taken any step which

{tant a point.

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"DEAD" MAN SEEKS TO CASH CHEQUE

Institutes Claim To Regain Estate

The Supreme Court of Britian

painful process of readjustment Columbia, some time ago, declared

to new values.

a man to be deed on evidence that

The process of readjustment nothing had been seen or heard of is salutary but painful, and its him for years. His estate was inhabitants might well wish for ordered to be divided between his 30,000 Resident At

a wall to protect them from the relatives in Canade and New Harbin

Zealand, fury of a disillusioned, demo-

The order was carried out and cracy Stockbrokers trying to According to the Harbin, Timas, believe that the speculating jam-succession duties were paid. Now there are 70,000 Russian emigres boree of the boom days is a de the missing man has turned up residing in Manchukuo, of whom sirable normalcy, soon to be re On going to the bank in his home [80,000 live in Harbin

gained, look in vain for comfort town to cash, a cheque the manager During the last five years, 7,228 The only cheerful point is that informed him of what had happened births, 6,117 deaths, and 2,600 mar working compromises are rapid-in his absence and expressed regret riages were registered ly succeeding the first fury at being unable to →→ The number of marriages solem "Non semper arcum tendit sine

stallation of a long dis-nised by the Church in 1980 totalled Pecora The Pecora investigaThe unhappy.

how I 620, but last year,

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