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MONDAY, FEBRUARY

OF THE DAY

LAIR MAIL SCANDAL

President Roosevelt's drastic

12, 1934.

IN THE WIND The Very Idea!

W upon their ultimate con- Probably they will work a 'fow

W

HERE I LIE!

7ITH little publicity attendant, pa raw materials for the factories.

By Eddie Kelly, Bowling Expert action in cancelling all air mail contracts in the United States Bequences, some changes promis- hours each week in the factory for

NE have now reached suggests that the White House is lug momentous influence on the a high wage and own the chief

that stage in life when In the possession of a great deal future history of the United States mechanical tools of more enjoy!

nothing interests us but a more information than has been aro, well under way. Probably able life. publicly disclosed. And that is even more Important than

Instead of squalid "company" good game of bowls. suspicious enough. Clerks in the eagerly watched activities of the shacks, or worse, they will live office of the Postmaster General National Recovery Administration either on their farms or in modeling wild oats. Us for the We're through with sow- in Washington have acknowledged

Д

the

near

that large files of personal and are the fast materializing giant homes, on model streets,

quiet life, on the rinks be departmental correspondence of reclamation projects of the West model schools, and other Buch the former Incumbent in office and of the Tennessee Valley pro- "model" things as already exist in tween drinks, and drinks be- were burned at his order before ject in the south; for, taken to the Government's town for its tween rinks. ho left office last March. Mr.gether, they point toward impend-workmen at Boulder Dam, which Brown declares that "no official

Is a city often, described by No more wine and women. No more merry parties. correspondence" was destroyed. Ing changes of vast scope, Nevertheless, good deal of Last year the United States Gov-idealists for consummation some No more-bat that's enough. correspondence dealing with the

million time in the future. Use of the air mall contracts, the subject of ernment-realized half a acute controversy ever since an dollars profit from its eleven com word "model" in connection with promises for the time being.

seems singularly op From this, you will judge that Investigation into the system of pleted and operating western pro- this town

children from we have at last discovered a award was begun, undoubtedly Jects, which was little enough to propriate because went up in smoke and restricted make considering the initial in about a third of the city can go real use for lawns, and we don't. the efforts of the Government vestment, but none the less algul to school without crossing a single mean what you think. Committee Becking to get at the ficant because the mere fact that

And yet, lawn bowls is some- bottom of the alleged acandal. the Government has at last made money from its efforts to make the "desert bloom as a roso" heralds each house has abundant lawn and thing like women. As one reclamation engineer face garden space of its own and has

In bowls you use plenty of tiously put it one principaley access to publie parks; down-bias to get to the jack. means by which Americans are town parking is abundantly pro again to be made to feel like happy vided for, and, all things consider. also get at your jack with bias cows in grassy fields."

ed, it is a town with some sense bias this and bias that. to it. It was designed for the Reclamation Bureau by Mr. S. R. DeBoer of Denver.

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Hongkong Telegraph. THOROUGH ENQUIRY

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1934,

more

vast

street; each house is on a private driveway away from traffic lanes;

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But' women

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can't fascinate you as much as bowls do. There's a sort of intoxication about it. It altern your whole outlook.

In the Club House, after a hard fought battle on the fields, or lawn, you learn the new arithmetic.

Two pints make one quart, four quarts make one gallon, one gallon makes one merry.

But let's skip that.

Good bowling is a matter of tem perament. If you go along for a game just after you've had a row with the wife, your woods will in- variably finish up in the ditch.

1557-Down The Pétersky (Moscow Street Song) (Arr. Challapin) | JAPAN'S MANDATES the national capital for at least a somebody will be using it. Now, by recovery legislation promise wood, It's termed the shot. In any

Maschenka (Folk Song)

7116-The Wraith (Schubert).

Death and the Maiden (Schubert)

7199-When the King Went Forth to War (Koenemann)

The Prophet (Poushkin-Rimsky-Korsakow, Op.49)

DB-1103-Song of the Volga Boatmen

Chaliapine, Koenemann) in Russian The Prophet, Op.49 (Rimsky-Korsakov) In Russian

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And ditch he swallow it!

The very assertion that such recorda have been burned sets to legitimate public 趄 spark curiosity us to just what took It is a rather pleasing picture, place in the letting of the air mail this look into the future, as it is contracts in question. Certainly printed by engineers; a composite If the further testimony of wit- plcture of great dams, of

Those who have visited Cho nesses is true that the former electric power networks, of small Postmaster-General acted as a and carefully tended farms, of 200- Muscle Shoals project have seen sort of tsar of the incipient avia-mile-an-hour trains Hinking the the vast real estate developments WINYARD.-This Morning nt bis

tion Industry, laying out the air immense domain into a unit. The laid out there for future growth be pieced together and of a relatively model charac- residence, 43, Hill Wood Road, mail map and the bidding specif-picture can Kowloon, Frederick Willlani Win-cations with particular companies something like this: Take the ter.

ng the il- yard, late of the Kowloon-Canton in view, allotting routes in accord- Boulder Dam project

Besides Boulder Dam and Rallway. Funeral leaves the ance with prior arrangements lustration. The primary purpose,: Monument at 5 p.m. this after rather than according to the bids, it may surprise some to know, of Muscle Shoals, another project is under way, considerably please then the plain intentions of the the Boulder Dam is not to irrigate now

congressional act nd presumably some eight million acres of arid larger than either of these two. It is the giant Columbia River' pro- the wishes of the general public sell, although it will do that verject at Grand Coulee in the State were thrown to the winds.

nicely; ita chief ends will be con trol of Colorado River flood waters, of Washington, which will back which in times past have done water up to the Canadian border, things to California's Imperial control floods, Irrigate new acres,

If you've just received your Valley, and generation of clec- and supply, electricity to the whole tricity. With a reclamation pro- Northwest. In addition the West annual bonus, the wife bas had a Americans certainly hoped when ject usually goes a dam, and with is already dotted with similar, only son, the price of whisky has come the Teapot Dome scandal was a dam in these days of engineers smaller and less spectacular pro-down, or you've successfully evaded or less mopped up that goes electricity, and with electri- jects, and the new avenues of gov. the major shroffs, you can't go

wrong. shady practices had passed from city, industry being what it is, nmental participation opened up

When you send down the winning political generation. But the dis- Boulder Dam will generate con- many more shortly. Japan's reasons for declining closures affecting the Shipping siderable electricity, enough, as a

case, you're liable to get shot, and to give up possession of the Board and now the air mall may matter of fact, to supply all of er living on one of the projects the head you have next morning.

With his automobile, the labour- the heads you play are nothing to islands in the Pacific which she assuage the regret of some at the Southern California. It will gon- may drive over in the morning to holds under mandate from the change of Administration last erate it cheaply, but also pront do a few hours of machine super-like bowls for teaching you how Another thing, there's nothing League of Nations were recently year. They whisper the mural ably-so profitably that it will pay vision at one of the lonel factories, to make excuses to the headache, disclosed by Mr. Hirota, the that is shouted by, the Bayonne for the entire project in less than or he may drive out to his heres when you arrive home late. Foreign Minister. When the in France-oficial integrity is the

Credit Municipal embezzlement half

century yet, again, 80 of irrigated land which he farms We remember the last time we

machinery Versailles Peace Treaty was keystone of a republic. Deo-cheaply that large factories are with

co-operatively missed our dinner. being drawn up, he declares, it cratic party leadership, through power, just as

bound to centre around it for owned with his neighbours. His "M'dear", we said, "old Whales- was at first intended that these Senator Black's committee, pro located in New England at the be spent delighting in the arts, evening, and we had to see him.

the cotton mills abundant afternoon leisure might teeth had a stroke at the Club this istands should be handed over to poses to go thoroughly into what-break of the mountains to utilize writing an article on how to in-home. Terrible thing, poor fellow, Japan outright, but subsequent ever hints there may be of is water power a hundred years ago. crease crop yields, or who can but the doctor thinks he'll be ok. ly they were mandated to her. doing in the previous Administra-

say?-a little spring verse for to-morrow." tion. Japan, says Mr. Hirota, agreed

"The Casual Day." to accept the mandate "only on

Already complaints have been the understanding that there RUSSIA IN THE EAST

raised about the low cost at which Not the least of the changing power from the Muscle Shoals aspects might be in the methods

The little white ball is either. was to be no change in the basic

project is to be sold, and one effort of government. The boundaries known as the Kitty or the Jack. fact that Japan owned the

-Distinct-international-signi- of these projects would appear_tol of the various projects may in time. We cannot discover why it should. slands." If this represents the

Aleance is seen in the recent decree be the end of privately owned represent the divisions of govern-be given a feminine and masculine full strength of the Japanese of the Soviet Government guaran-power concerns, for they can't ment, with the present counties name, but we strongly suspect that case, it is to be doubted whether teeing certain advantages to compete with the low cost of water and states losing their identitics. the phrase "Sporting on the village it will carry conviction anywhere workers and peasants, Govern-power, nor raise sufficient capital! This, of course, would tend toward green" originated from those two else than in Japan. Much has ment employees and soldiers in to build similar projects.

centralization of government with words. been heard of alleged secret the Russian Far East. Under the

Drake is known as the father of consequent tax savings. With the factories, moving lo

bowls. The father of cricket was understandings by which Japan terms of this decree wage and the reclamation projects, the rest Boulder Dam is almost a reality.also a member of the poultry family

are prescribed Jas the spoils of war, but the out. for all dwellers in the eastern/seems to follow in obvious order. The others are close behind, The and is often referred to to-day ns.

Soviet Union; standing fact is that the Peace while peasants are exempted from termed "submerged humanity." already started. Somebody used We have been informed on the Treaty is the only germane the burdensome grain tax for ten which is to say, undernourished, the electricity and somebody ate highest authority that when the document affecting the situation, years if they belong to collective underthinking industrial workers the food, for government reports Spanish. armada approached Eng. and Japan, as well as all the farms, for five years if they have will be drawn from their present show that $4 per cent, of the food and, Drake refused to so out and congested aluma to the more "wide grown on the projects last year fight them until he had finished his homesteads. Ever other signatories, is bound by its individual

established since Japan

open spaces" where doubtless the was also consumed right on them. provisions provisions. These

game of bowls. amounts to a protectorate over mere change in environment will do Already some manufacturers speak

Then, leisurely jumping into his certainly did not make a present Manchuria, the vast, sparsely them much good. They will pos- of moving to the farms-Henry ship, he sailed out to meet of the Pacific islands to Japan. populated Russian Maritime Pro-sibly have small farms, growing Ford for one-so it is something enemy. Drake skipped the English Japan was granted a mandate to vince on the Pacific which forms what they need for food as well to think about. hold the islands in sacred trust the hinterland for Vladivostok on behalf of the League of has been in an exposed position. Nations. It is a contradiction in The military defences of this part terms to suggest, as Mr. Hirota of the Soviet Union have been greatly strengthened, At the does, that this mandate was ac-

same time the possibility that the cepted on the clear understand-Soviet Far East might be ing that the islands were to be theatre of conflict has acted as a Japan's own property. The deterrent to new settlement and status of mandatory Powers is has caused some Inhabitants to in no

Bense mystifying. It is consider the advisability of mov that of a trustee. The mere Ing to other parts of the country. fact that mandatory Powers have to report yearly to the League on the progress of the territories they are administer-

The new decree is clearly de- ing is proof positive that these territories are merely held in signed both to counteract thin tendency and to stimulate nd- trust. A further point which ditional migration. Along with suggests itself is that it ia this effort to attract peusant passing strange why Japan alone settlers there is a special effort to of the mandatory Powers ahould recruit Jowish colonists for the claim that her right to absolute Biro-Bidlan Region on the Amur ownership was not denied. On River, which is expected to have what possible ground would' an the status of a Jewish national region or republic. Immediately exception have been made in the after the promulgation of the de- case of Japan? The more the cree the Soviet press reported a Japanese contentions are analys- "wave of pledges" among workers cd, the less convincing do they and employees in the Far East to appear. The issue is, after all, remain at their posts for definite quite a simple one. It can easily terms of years, which may some-

what resemble be tested by the precise language tion. The significance of all this a civil mobiliza- of the Peace Treaty and com- is clear. The Soviet Union Is plementary documents.

Verbal determined to keep a firm hold "understandings" cannot be on the Maritime Province, which talten into account, even assum- now inserts Itself as a wedge into ing that there ever were any. Japan's now continental empire. Japan's mandates differ in no The purpose of the decreo la to essential respect from those inoronse as rapidly as possible the human and matorial reserves In granted to other Allies. They the immediate rear of the numer should be respected in the one

ous and powerfully equipped Far case as in the others.

Eastern Army,

was to secure certain territories Enlary increnses

regions of the

CLEAR PURPOSE

what

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Great masses of what is politely profita

from electricity

"You're not supposed to take them so seriously.

ИДЕТ

have Duck.

the

team, and, by a series of brilliant shots, defeated the opponents.

Although anaesthetics were un- known in those days, the entire operation was carried out Spain- lessly.

Which le all we have to say on the subject of bowls.

Or, as the Governor of North- Carolina said to the Governor of South Carollas, "It's a long time between rinks!”

HAPPY MEMORIES.

(A writer declares that in many casca people who take a holiday cruiso "devote the whole time to card-playing.)

That summer cruise that cured

the "blues"

And left us fit and trim, Made life worth while and

brought a smile

To faces long and grim. Hearts throbbed and awelled'

while hands were hold- Whate'er was lost or gained, - For, come what might, by day

and night,

"I deal" conditions reigned.

THE CHORUS LADY, (The chorus girl of to-day usually a lady of superior says a producer.).

She'a highly educator,

With "people" of high degree, And has probably graduated

At a university;

In avery branch of learning

She has always been a "wow," And with ardour keenly burning

She's in the chorus now.