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The Third Colonial System"

A WOMAN DYNAMO

By R. J. CRUIKSHANK

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The Very Idea!

THE EXPOSE

By The Kelly Headache

Twenty years ago, what the government of a great power. chose to do in its own colonies was assumed to be nobody's The new mistress of the White man once he gets there to keep in business but its own. To realite House has been called a dynamo touch with public opinion. That. Kelly is sick. At least that's. how times have changed one with a smile. She sums up in is where I believe I can help, since what the lazy devil says. He was has only to glance, over the herself all the aspirations of the my husband's mail is so tremen- sick last week, and poor little. latest report of the Permanent most advanced feminists in the dous he cannot possibly look at it Junior had to write his column. Mandates Commission to the United States.

all. I think that my correspond-Now that he's been on the beer Council of the League of Na- This younger generation con-ence is the avenue through which again, it falls to the lot of the tions. The Japanese Govern siders that the old problem "Hus- we can keep in touch with the poor household drudge to do his ment was asked to say plainly band versus Carcer" has lost all public, and that it will give us a work

real picture of the life of the coun- reality.

Being only his wife, of course, whether it was establishing a naval base in the islands of the

try. So I hope that people will it's not for the likes of me to complain. Being only, the poor, Pacific, and the French Govern-

write to me in Washington."

This is the first time that the wretched slave that he took, ment was reminded that the

wife of a President has used the young unsophisticated and iti, time was approaching when not

plural. "we," and it suggests that. nocent from a mother's loving only part of Syria, but all of it,

Mrs. Roosevelt is looking at the arms, who am I to utter a word might be expected to make good it is because Mrs. Roosevelt has

Presidency na a partnership

But let me tell you, Mr. Editor, use of its promise of independ- been able to achieve all these venture. The average mistress of just the sort of a husband he's

beon to me. ence. The mandates system has things in such a marked degree the White House is as quite as a I know, the wretch only married already, only fourteen years that she is the idol of the pro- mouse, and is not expected to do after its institution, passed be-gressive women of the country, anything more dynamic than offer me for my money. And since that yond the experimental stage. In fact, the mistress of the White an oyster pattie to the third secre- unhappy day, he's taken my all.

He has trampled on my girlish-

some

It believes that real freedom for women consists of a combination of personal interests with a happy marriage, a devotion to public acr- vice with the rearing of a brood of healthy children.

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Freedom For Children

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Under this system, the Kingdom House, the" First Lady of the tary of the Lithuanian Legation-affections, in the same way as he of Irak has completed its ap- Land, as she is called in Washing- Mrs. Roosevelt intends to

tan society, may

be fairly de-reality to the title of the First tramples into the house with, Bis. prenticeship and become a mas-scribed as the very Newest New Lady of the Land. ter state in the worshipful com- Woman.

I've tried-oh, how I've tried to reform him. I've talked to him All new Rockne Six de Luxe pany of nations. Placed in its "Every woman," she says, "has

from morning until mid-night. models are equipped with two proper historical perspective, a right to lead her Individual life." Her views are those of a woman about the evils of strong drink chromium-plated horns, mounted the mandates regime now stands It is a duty she owes to her hus-whom wide experience of human and all the brute does is walk out beneath the headlamps at the revealed as a new era in colonial band and children as well as her-beings has made liberal and toler-of the house. front of the car.

affairs, following after two dis-self. Two days each week, nojant. She is devoted to the grent And he's cruel. Oh, Mr. Editor. tinct epochs in the past. The matter where she may be, Mrs. English classics, and never tra- He's so cruel. Junior used his first of these has been called the Roosevelt travels to New York to vels without a bundle of books, razor to sharpen a lead pencli "old colonial system." Then a teach history and the English but she would not force reading and the depraved person colony was maintained solely in classics to the children of the on a child who has no taste for it. at him at my son and threw a

Todhunter School, During herl She has always been a Dry, but shaving brush at hini.. the interest and profit of the

arduous years as the Governor's | is"opposed to Prohibition heart mother country-and the

mo-wife at Albany she never once and soul, and she angered the Yes, Sir, I've tried everything.. ther country frequently assum- failed the Todhunter School. She political Drys by declaring that the My mother offered him $100 to ed a very stepmotherly attitude. also runs the Val Kill furniture average American girl of to-day provide evidence for our divorce. After this system had in shop, which brings her a small is faced with the problem of fearn He laughed at her a twisted. degree brought about income and provides employment ing, very young, of how much in- cynical sort of laugh-and told toxicants she can drink with safe her he hated corruption more than. its own undoing, as eviden- for a number of people. ced "by the successful revolt During recent months she has ty, and then sticking to the pro-anything else in the world. She of the American colonies, raised a great deal of money for per quantity. That was the can- offered him $200 and he smiled a a new era had its beginnings in her charities by a series of radio did thought of a mother who half-twisted sort of smile and

talks given under

commercial knows society as it is, and under- said no previous attempt had been the British Empire through the

Mother granting of self-government to ponsorship. She is in great de- stands the perils of her children made to corrupt him.

mands an after-dinner speaker, are not to be met by pretending offered him $400. He called that the principal overseas do- she sometimes fills speaking they do not exist.

a business proposition and took minions. The "new colonial engagements for her husband, she "I believe very strongly it is the $400. WAR DEBTS system" introduced elements of edits a monthly magazine, she better to allow children too much

But then Mother called him a freedom and consent into the akes it a point of pride never to freedom than toa little, she says, rascal, a philanderer, and a good.. Although the Roosevelt Ad-colonial relationship to such a ignore an appeal for help, and she "that it is better for them to get for-nothing. She said I was ministration has not yet reached degree that the regime was re

ie a passionate, bookworm. their feet wet than to be told at fool to have married him. any definite decision in regard to cognized both in Britain and

That was too much for me, Mr. One of her countless useful the age of fifteen to put on their

My judgment was in the war debt problem, there overseas to be a vast improve-years, was taking a class of young learn by its own experience, and paired. I must either lose face.

activitice during the past five rubbers. Each generation must Editor. seems every reason, after read-ment over its predecessor. ing between the lines of recent To-day & new generation of students into the New York State though it may be hard to watch or go back to Kelly. I went back. And let me tell you, Sir, it was Legislature to show them exnetly our children go through the same pronouncements, that a scaling candidates is marching up the how the people's laws are made. mistakes that we made ourselves, not because of the $400. I always down might be agreed to, pro- aisle to receive degrees in the Her time is budgeted to the last it will do no good to pursue them was opposed to corruption. vided the United States is given university of statehood. Theirs minute. She writes on trains, with warnings. All we can do is a quid pro quo in the form of has been a comparatively shel-reads in bed, knits while listening to be worthy of their confidence." increased facilities for trade tered carcer.

The kindly con- to speeches. She has never known Mrs. Roosevelt never establish- In spite of the fact that so many with the debtor nations. In the sideration which they have re day's illness, and she hosted a nursery in her home, and of we talpans have been forced case of Britain, in particular, a ceived, and the concern with brought up five children remark-encouraged her children to take by circumstances to get rid of feeling undoubtedly does exist which their discipline has been able for their good looks and part in the conversation with the our powerful limousines, our in America that inasmuch as she tempered, will no doubt be re- Mrs. Curtis Dall, is one of the earliest fears,

splendid physique. Her daughter, visitors to the house from the yachts, and all that sort of thing. got the worst bargain of all inflected in their careers as her funding agreement, a

prettiest girls in New York, and re-dependent states. The world's her mother's inseparable com- duction could with justice be concept of what colonial ad- panion. made. The tariff issue arises ministration should be has been here, and it remains to be seen leavened by their example, whether Britain, is prepared to open the doors wider for Ameri- can imports. This raises a nice

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(Q) You have staying with you an unwelcome guest in the shape of a bailiff but when visit- ors arrive you introduce him an old college chum who is stay ing with you. But, as it happens, he has just left your friends under aimilar circumstances, and they: know him well. di

there is no reason why we should not continue to study those ob- Dress Simplicity

servances of polite society which have made the Colony what she Mrs. Roosevit is an extremely the United States have chided Mrs. so, we beg to offer a few pro

Wealthy and leisured women in is, Heaven help her. This being hospitable woman, and loves en Roosevelt for beiny so undignified blems in the new etiquette: tertaining for her husband.

as to earn money while her hus Their dinners at Albany and

(Q) Mr. and Mrs. B. have gone band is a public man. She has to the pictures, Nowadays they Hyde Park are famous for their worked principally to keep her can afford only the front seats point, since it has been claimed Authoritative hints of the pos- friendly atmosphere. The Roose-favourite charities alive, but acc but as soon as the lighta go down by the British Government that sibility of American tariff ad- velta are one of those families ondarily to supplement the family they duck and crawi back to the the British tariffs were intro-justments to enable war debts that think and act as one, a family income. Contrary to general be more aristocratic back stalls. In duced chiefly as a bargaining to be paid have raised hopes in that religiously honours all its lief, Mr. Roosevelt is not a rich the dark, however, Mr. B. has the lever, in order to secure better many quarters outside as well

man Compared with Mr. Hoover, misfortune to sit down on some- terms by inducing a mutual as inside the United States that

My Partner and Myself

He is poor. He a country gen- body's hat. lowering of barriers. The ques-the upward trend of duties to

tleman who inherited about one (A) Mr. B. should get back on At the same time, no public man hundred thousand dollars from the floor again and commence to tion, therefore, is whether Bri- which the world has been sub- tain would be willing to modify jected will soon be arrested. valuable help from his wife than from

a similar amount mihou. Everybody will take him his half-brother.' The for the theatre cat. If he' is her tariffe in favour of the According to the League of Na- the new President. Mrs. Roose-beautiful Roosevelt estate at Hyde stroked, he should purr, and he United States, merely for the tions World Economic Survey eelt, indeed, proposes to extend the Park belongs to the President's may even be offered a saucer of purpose of securing a revision for 1931-82, the upward move- responsibilities of the President's mother.

milk, which is not to be sneezed of the debt agreement, whilst atment of, the tariffs of the last wife. She said recently, "From Despite the great amount of at in these straitened days. the same time America's tariffa three years "was undoubtedly my previous life in Washington, entertaining she does, Mrs. Rouse- remain unaltered. This is the accentuated both by the alarm I know how difficult it is for a (Continued on Page 5.) problem, also, which will face and resentment felt in many America's other debtors, since it countries as the discussion of seems clear that it is on this the new Hawley-Smoot tariff basis that revision is likely to be dragged on in the United States considered. The next instal-Congress from May, 1929, to ments of the debt are due on June, 1930, and by the real June 16th, and it appears that effects of that tariff when it if agreement to pay cannot be went into operation." If this secured, a moratorium may be diagnosis be correct, any move- granted until such time as ac- ment in a downward direction cord is reached. The negotia- started by the United States tions were to have started be- should similarly spread across fore now, but the domestic bank-the world. The hope that Pre- ing and other emergency ques-sident-Elect Roosevelt will re- tions have been a factor in the verse the tariff flow is therefore delay. In the case of Britain, buoying up a great company of the ground has been somewhat business men whose trade tide prepared by the visit to Eng- has been running out while that land of the British Ambassador of tariffs has been running in. to Washington and his confer-In the circumstances, it is ences with the U.S. Secretary of important to see where best to State since his return. In the start damming the tariff tide. main, the Roosevelt Administra- It would be unreasonable to ex- tion appears likely to follow the pect it to get flowing at full lines foreshadowed by Mr. speed in the opposite direction Hoover, making modifications all at once. A useful step would contingent on securing trade be to lower the duties on goods. concessions. The British in-which are still being imported atalment, due in June, totals in spite of the height of the G$75,950,000. But it has a tariff wall. The United States, ready been made plain by the for instance, it still buying British Government that there tweeds and serges from Great is no intention of continuing Britain in spite of a tariff of 50 payments on the old basis. In cents a pound plus 50 per cent. the case of France, she failed of the value. Similarly, Ameri- to pay the G$19,251,432 due lastean machine tools are AUCCOBS- December, but it is believed that fully negotiating the British the Chamber of Deputies may tariff of 20 per cent. If the shortly vote on a proposal to rates of duty on these articles tender the payment, despite the went down, the amount of busi- delay, and thus open up the wayness might confidently be ex- to new negotiations.

pected to go up.

"Mamma, make brother pay for his share of the gas,

when we drive down to see you."

(A) Invite the bailiff to make. up a four at bridge, solo whist nap, coddam, or any other game bailiffs are likely to play. He is the only person present who is likely to have any money, and you may win it from him if you have any luck..

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THE MARCH OF SCIENCÉ.

A research worker has dis- covered that sound WAVES will control bacteria and sö' arrest the decay of food. The sound waves, can be produced on an ordinary musical instrument. We look forward to the prospect of a Dairy. Farm Salesman serenading a Birloin of beef with a saxophone to prolong its life; or to the com- pradore menacing with a mouth- organ an over-ripa Gorgonzola to prevent it walking out on him. Chilled egge of all ages would doubtless hum an accompaniment.

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