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1

GERMANY TO-DAY

What the Man in the Street is Thinking

-By GORDON SHERIDAN-

increasing,

AM writing in a private house the incronaing, ever

The German is taxed on his in-

in the very heart of Gormpny taxation. after having toured the country.

I have visited Constance, Dresden, [come, on his, food, on all his Berlin, Cologne, Hanover and other beverages but milk had beer, Ho lending cities.

adds to the revenue if he goes to There is this to be anld for the theatre, to a cinema, to a dance average Gorman eltizen-he is not hall, or to a restaurant. Gorman floundering in the morass of pen-car taxes are the world highest, simism. Nor is over-optimism being in. the neighbourhood of £50 dragging him too far the other por annum, way. Ho is simply tightening his Further, German taxpayers who belt, determined to carry on as fall to pay their taxes promptly must pay interest on the arrears

million working days aro, lost overy day. That means that the highest number employed on any ono day of the insured population le roughly eight millions. These figures will enable us to realiso the dread that hangs over a very large proportion of the country's insured population, because it is not the same people who are out of work: there is a constant

There will bo a whist drive for change over taking place. It has service men in the west lounge of the been well said that the worst Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, at 9 p.m. to thing for a race is to destroy hepo; the dread of want. In the

The Crown Colonist announces worst fear, of all. Insecurity loo

the appointment of Mr. G. S.bost he may, often destroys those fine qualities Wilson to be a police probationer of hope and ambition, and of zost-in Hongkong. for accomplishment, with which the worker goes out Into the world. At the same time, the influence of moderni machinery. combined with the various wage schemes devised, tends to turn the workers from citizens to robota. And when industry logs. it is the generat

night.

cane,

The

Two men are out of work in Gor-at the rate of 36 per coat. par many for every one in Britain. annum. Not so long ago the rate The dole is being continually cut was 120 per cent.1

To her credit, Germany has not down. A man who earned £3 A Chinese woman attempted suicide yesterday by jumping into the har-when in. work may get only six allowed her musicians to be swept for only a away by the tide of talkies, but shillings, and that bour from Youmat Ferry wharf. Rescued by Kwok Lo, on a sampan limited period. After six months thousands of bank clerks are out in the vicinity, she was sent to the of initial benefit, the dole is no of work through the installation

longer paid by, the Government, of machines in offices. Government Civil Hospital,

but is granted by purely Local Au- thorities, who may as likely as not Ready to Help. In the current Central Theatre at be bankrupt.

The plain man takes it all When possible, There are half a ruillion in Ger-philosophically. traction, "Good Night Vienna," Jack) worker who Arnt has to be die Buchanan, well-known English actor, many who receive neither work ho helps his neighbours. I have

notable British pensed with. At present, denpito heads

cast.nor the dole. Those who have not heard a beggar make a little speach thou-production le conceived on light lines been hit by labour depression have on an underground train. In Bri- A deluxe Multi-Wave Receiver all the unemployment,

--there is no painful suspense-and in SPARTON cabinet of striking sands of people are working six and the music set to these lines is gay been harmed by the constantly tain he would have received very little, but overy German hand was beauty. At a turn of the Band

the Austrian capital before the War. The banks are no longer closed, ready with a mite to help kim. Selector and Control Knob, this seven days a week, and this raises and catchy, and portrays the life of fluctuating markets.

Frankfort na Neighbours' marvellous instrument is instant-the question whether some better The big attendances during the week but grievous harm was wrought

end were well-antisfied.

during those fateful three days Aid Association. Various districts ly adapted for either the long distribution of labour is not pos

when money simply could not be subscribe to give the unemployed wave or the world spanning short sible. Industry should reduce the

obtained. Once respectablo eit-one square meal a day. wave reception as desired.

Autilisation of labour forces to just fear the weck ended November 19 it is no unusual sight to see out-sacred ornaments so that they may The Health bulletin of Eastern Portozens have been reduced to beggary, Churches are disposing of their powerful 12 tube Superhetero- dyne with Automatic Volume as much a relence as the timing shows the following cases of infec-side o of the few German help in the work of charity. Control, Tone and Static Control, of machines, the conting of power, lous diseases and deaths therefrom: theatres that keep the flag of dra-

"i

In Britain we have not yet come Plague, Heirut 6 cases, Rangoon Phono Pick-up

Jack, Band and the utilisation of other re- Colombe 2 cases deaths, Cho-matic art still flying gentlemen to this pass. The majority can In Germany, Selector Switch, and all the finest sources. Every day a worker islera, Calcutta, 16 cases G deaths. of princely mien paying to go into generally "manage."

the gallery. Smallpox, Alexandria 8

"management" la frequently Im- SPARTON features.

out of employment, two results are deaths, Aden 1 imported сиве, I have spoken to a German ex-possible. produced: firstly a stendy demoralf-Baghdad 14 cases & deaths, Basrah 27 Princess who now lives principally So all the cities are losing their sation due to mental anxiety deaths, Calcutta 19 cases

enses 17 deatha, Bombay 10 cases 3 on cats meat!

inhabitants. Those having family 8 deaths,

The superficial muy fail to ap-ties in little villages are returning secondly, a waste of skill that can-Madras 24 cases & deaths, Nagapatan preciate Berlin's plight. The Ber-to their own kin. And there is in

cases 1 death, Rangoon 1 case, Tuticorin 8 cases 2 deaths, Pondicher liners say that at all costs one some quarters a perpetual fear- ry 2 cases 2 deaths, Canton 14 cases must hide the outward signs of of war, both civil or from without..

bankruptcy. The street enfes are France remains a menace in the death.

crowded in the evenings by smart-German mind. Russia is feared ly dressed throngs. They have gone on the other side. "We are al- without their dinners so that they most defenceless," said an Army hold mock Straightway may drink coffee in glamorous (afilcer to me. "We bkilled appointed renders. of a well-trained

The bands play in battles and mimic warfare every craftsman. He made some cal- he turns to his ever ready, handy surroundings.

index file and there finds another the beer gardens, and the former other week, so that our soldiers Great Britain sent them a man of in such emergency before, or in-

pavement to enjoy the music. fection as possible, but what if war comes from outside? Our that type she was making them a vents a new one with which he Back to the Land,

strength is 80 puny, we are de- present in capital value of picks the lock of a strong box In provincial Germany the signs fencelessA." several thousands of pounds. Iflchock-full of circumstantial

And if it comes from within? but of want are yet more apparent. that is so, ad-one can estimate the quite convicting evidence. Against There are no traffic hold-ups of As I write, Germany is about to be another election, private cars such as one may see plunged into terrible waste of one of Britain's such Incurable inventiveness and in Britnit. There is no week-end with the inevitable concomitant of greatest national assots-the skillready resource, contrast the prosy exodus to the seaside or the coun-street batties and bloodshed-and fussiness of those at hendquarters try. There is an exodus, but it is this only a few days after the of her people--which is going on who squelch the inquisitive news of another kind. A "back to the first meeting of the new Parlia at the present time. To destroy the reporter's ardour with an empty pay on the farms is preferable to

land movement has set in. Poor ment. skill of the parents, is to damage blotter and gruff, laconie

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1932.

not be eatininted in money..

A leading industrialist in the United States was asked at the time of the boom what he thought would be the minimum capital value

"

Cases

culations and said that every time clue that maybe served him well customers atand on the streetfshall be as near to military per-

to the nation. If We this

of Inbour,

mass

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story

state-elty gutters.

Faith in Hitler. the future of the child. The am-ment, "Nothing broke today." At I have met many men from Bri- Downstairs, a typléal middle- bition of the child is often to sucee-the London mock trial the charge tish interment camps who have class family listen with bated ed the parent and go one better in of "faking the evidence" was pre-only good to say of the treatment breath to the edicts of von Papen they say. the craft or occupation that has ferred against some of Britain's they received, and these ex-pri-Ins he speaks over the radio to all

soners make good ambassadors for Germany. "Hitler!"

some, there is "Hitler must get in. this time. had such a dominant effect uponfavourate and modern detective- us. But, all the

And then.. writers. Tell it not in faith in Iitler.

. we shall sec." him. Take away tho example and Gath, neither whisper it in circles. The average German citizen sces Faith in Iller grows by leaps influence that feeds this ambition Shakespearean or Baconian, but in Hitler's policy a return to pre and bounda. Little children have and irreparable loss 18 caused should not similar accusation, if war conditions. And if the term learned the Nazi salute. In this "pre-war" aländs for paradise in vilinge every other house flies the take justice be impartial. be levelled Britain, it stands for something Hitler flag, with its sinister sign,

of at the great bard himself? When more in Germany.

the "Hakenkreuz." One seca it A WORKERS' PROBLEM which is skilled in one way or an- [he made Hamlet hire a troupe of Foodstuffe are cheap. One can chalked up on walls and doorways,

other, although coming under the strolling actors to perform a one- get a three-course meni in a first-even on shop-windows.

class restaurant for a mark,

Jews who were born in Germany ierm "general worker" the in-act play depleting circumstantial

Cabbages are a penny each, and are being forced to flco the coun- evidence of his uncle's dereliction, sandwiches and beer can easily try to escape from merciless perse- security and competition associat-

cution. ed with it and the lack of compre-which he, Hamlet, had written be obtained for fourpence.

There is no enmity against Bri- overnight, Shakespeare started the A shirt equivalent to anything hension by the State of the re-detective story on its unending obtainable in London costs Avetain, Hatred increases against sources they are wasting, presents way and made the Prince of Den- shillings or less. One can pur-France and Russia, but if anything

chase a suit of clothes for little the "Englander" is admired. a terrible modern tragedy.

mark the world's original Sher-

more than a pound. But against every town one ands English clubs lock Holmes.

this fall in prices one is faced with where the youth of Germany may practise the language and perhaps discuss British style and British games.

so many

men are

of

Prior of

Hamlet-Amateur Detective.

The position of the "general worker in England at the mo- ment, when unemployed, is the subject much concern just now. to 1889, the organisation Inbour was expressed primarily through the craft trades, the rest of the workers being largely re-

If Shakespeare were contem- garded as labourers. Machinery

porary, he doubtless would have had not been developed to the been included with the other de- point it has siner, and the volume fendants at a mock trial of de- of heavy manual labour was then tective-story writers which was much greater. From those days, held recently at the London School when the public was forced to of Economics, for the Bard of realise the existence of the gen-Avon was a master of the fasci- eral labourer class, a recognition nating craft. In parenthesis it (has developed that there are real-may be permissible to ask why such woeful lack of collaboration

ly very fow "unskilled workers." apparently exists between the de- Every machine that is invented tective of Betion-menning, of brings into force, even in repetition course, his alter ego, the author work, a new kind of skill. In the and his prototype of Scotland process of changing from the Yard. To the anxious reader the bit older to the newer process, this chafing impatiently at

until next week's instalment shall class of worker has probably been forever put to reat all doubt as found most adaptable In equip to who the girl with the green hat ping modern industries. Such

really was, or answer the all-im- workers are, in fact, a tremend-portant question why, the butler ous economic asset to the nation, slipped the bolt which let the though the insecurity of their burglar pass, the curious In- employment ia one of the optitude of the police in failing to use such amazing and gratutit- country's greatest problems,

the novelista

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acumen oua

To realise this problem of “in-furnish Веств littlo short of aecurity, it is worth while bear-criminal. Such inconsequential АБ merely concreto a few statistics in mind, details. There are roughly about twelve ovidence, or its uttor Jack, for instance, never give a moment's million Insured workers

pauso to the facilo fabricator of England, and a calculation of the the detective in the story. When people on unemployment benefit, clues evaporate and float away public assistance or other forms into the thinnest other, he pre- of relief shows that over four sents no unwritton page to dis

in

"And it says hore, if they don't have place cards, you should wait for the host to show you whore to sit."

OTTAWA

By Edward Kelly,

Ours is a hard life, ours is.

In

Take yesterday, for instance. We werd told to interview Mr. [Guzzlewuzzle, the well known [local motor-car retailer, about the

Ottawa Agreement.

"Get to xx 1 1 out of here," said Mr. Guzzlowuzzle, greeting us affectionately, *The xx 11 automobile industry in Hongkong is well ruined. Ottawa I"

"Thank you, Mr. Güzzlewuzzlo,“ wo said, and came back to the Telegraph and wrote: "The bone- ficial effects of the Ottawa Agros- ment are already making them- solves felt in Hongkong. So busy was Mr. Guzzlewuzzle that he could not sparo the time to be Interviewed."

Anyway, if the Ottawa agres- ment has done nothing else it has. knitted the bonda of discord. Which is almost an epigram. An epigram is something smaller than a kilogram, although not as big' na a programms. (Programme from the Latin "pro," meaning pro- fessional, and "grammo"

your grandmother. A professional grand- mother."

It has also planted the seed of free trade within the Empira. Wo (Continued on Page 9.)