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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Ruccess REGISTERED

Everywhere

VAUXHALL -Light, Six 14 h.p.

MY 1934

TUESDAY, MAY 22,

1034.

NOTES OF THE DAY REACH-ME-DOWN The Very Idea!

N.R.A. INDICTED

The Darrow Board's indictment of N.R.A. Is severe, but not al- together unexpected. The Institu- tion of the inquiry was in itecit illustrative of a suspicion that all was not exactly as it should ba and was designed to be. And the result, conclusion is reached that N.I.A. is repressive of the little man of business, that the new regimenta- tion is no more able to reconcile private proft with public welfare than the old hit-or-miss system, that NILA. Ins, in fact, been ex- ploited for the special interests of High Finance and the great mon- opolistic trusts There будл chance for N.A. to exercise con- trol of industry for the general welfare as long as the disciples of rugged individualism, as they like to call it, were prepared to fight it. As soon as powerful financial and industrial groups be- gan to reveal willingness to co- operate-in

short, lo exploit in Jar With Vauxhall Bruch Mh.R.A. for their own ends-the little man began to be squeezed

THE CAR SUCCESS

of the YEAR STANDARD SALOON -£210

DE LUXE SALOON -~-£230

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, MAY-22, 1934.

THE BULGARIAN COUP

or

HOUSES

By R. J. CRUIKSHANK

mass Many smaller communities

This

ABOUT THE TOWN

By George

LETTER FROM CORRESPONDENT.

"Sir-Being myself a constant

is

Is damming. Briefs, the homies production of cheap estico. Alans Amal comics ronder of your valuable paper Interesting experiments sponsored and ramshackle alr, as though | (Note-We are proof against flat- by Mr. Roosevelt's Administration. they had not yet decided to be tery of this nature now, as statis-

ties show that everybody who The Government proposes to give come permanent settlements. financial backing to firms who are This is in odd contrast to the

anybody rends the Telegraph) wiling to build homes for the almost Egyptian, solidity of some 1 do not doubt In tho people in the same swift, whole- of the big cities. The rebuilding sale, standardised way that Mr. of the small towns is one of the least that you will declino men Ford turns out ears, They will problems of America's future, but litle space (Note Why this re- extend credits, and share the it presupposes a more settled way. quest should have been refused wo ultimate risk.

of life,

are enquiring) in order to appeal Dilapidated frame structures

experiment in mass pro and slum shanties will be replaced duction is likely to commend itself to anyone in the Colony, especial- by trim little homes as like one to the country because of the ly the official ataffs of the theatres another as match-boxes. A poet stimulus it will give to a number to take notice of my article and and an artist might shudder at of trades. There has long been this prospect. Described in the

see that nothing of this kind will feeling that the quickest way to

happen again. (Note-the barest terms, it has something of overcome the depression would be ever the nightmare horror of one of the exploitation of some new form italics are ours). minor imitatora of Wells and some quarters there is a hope that those geometrical Utopias that of large scale manufacture. In Bellary used to invent. To the this housing scheme may be the WIVES WITH A VENGEANCE, alarmed imagination, those mass long-awaited harbinger of better

"Willingly they would lend their production houses may neem to times. lengthen in dreary vistan of prinon' There will be a stendy carapaign wives to each other but when the cells.

of propaganda to make the public white men entered their paradise It la futile for General Johnson'

The reality will probably not be eager to modernise its homes.the Eskimo heart cried out for to rage about the Board's qualif-ns dreadful as that. In the first The appeal to patriotism and pro- vengeance —`n vengeance that cations, to accuse it of being in-place, there is an immense need gress and plumbing will be all

out.

GEN, JOHNSON'S REPLY

capable of fulfilling its functions throughout the United States for combined. If the idea is success- neither chains nor terrors of the merely because it has produced an the rehabilitation of house pro- fully grafted, it is certain to de-cy wilderness could prevent" unfavourable report. That does perty. The traveller through this velop in complexity. From simple, citation of emotional publicist not help the General's case a bit. country carries away with him anf cheap, ready-made houses we shall advertising "Eskimo." The National Recovery Review impression of myriads of frame pass to elaborate essays in domes- Board was established by Presid-houses, brown, blue, green and ide modernity.

We wonder if the ides intended

ent Roosevelt as nu official body white. stretching into infinity. Public taste in the United to be conveyed is:(a) that to study the workings of N.R.A. Since the depression, there has States constantly ductuales - Eskimo-land is a paradise; (b) with special reference to its effect been a lag both in new building tween the standardised and the that borrowed wives make a par- upon small enterprises. It is and repairs.

individual. A man will veer presumed that Mr. Darrow and his

Lacking the solidity of the brick sharply from a passion of con-ndise; (c) that it is paradise to be colleagues were chosen as the men villas of England, the frame formity to a passion of diagent, able to lend your wife; (d) that most likely to provide the Presid- houses of America have quickly One day he must have the counter lending your wife is one way of ential with an mplaint, in poverty. Many of them are peel next everything must be different.

report shown the effects of neglect and part of his neighbours goods, the getting your vengeance--"a venge- General Johnson's

ance that neither chains nor ter- the circumstances, suggests one ing. mottled, weather-battered. LABOUR. Saving DEVICES. of two things, either that he is For the observer It is a question

rors of the icy wilderness" could Interpreting the New Deal in a of whether one prefers picturesque

The "House of To-morrow," re- surpass, manner differing from that of the shabbiness or standardised neat-cently exhibited by the Westing President, or that the people of the ness. To the tenant the problem house Company, gives a hint of United States have been misled

is not so much one of aesthetics future developments, which will regarding the objective of the as of comfort and well-being. New Deal.

cheap.

EASY TO BUILD.

will be

labour.

There is

When

BY WATER BUG. During the weekend the summer

BY A DIARIST.

Europe and the world at large have received the news of the

Then, again, attempts will become when people have more cash dramatic coup in Bulgaria, re-

made to prevent the mass produe in their rockets. This home 1 Invasion of our precincts by the tion houses from looking alike, a marvel of electrical devices for "ent at forty" and his wife, began sulting in the establishment of THE LITTLE FELLOW

There There will be a standardisation of motors to serve the housewife, and in earnest. During the last one

are nineteen saving a military dictatorship. with

The main feature of the Darrow basic parts, such as floors, wint is claimed that it would take or two weeks a few of them came mixed feelings, At the moment,

servants to do the down to the sea in slips and rain- it is not possible to assess the Report is its demand for fair play dows, plumbing, but relief will be get hur

for the smaller enterprises. It is provided by variety in colouring equivalent amount of work. developments at their precise interesting, in this connection, to and architectural styles. It 19 The laundry is run without hu- cents but the weather helped us significance, due in large meas recall General Johnson's statement calimated that the cost of a five-man hands. Doors open and close considerably in keeping the water ure to the intrigue, both internal of May 12, when he declared the room ready-made house and in regard to foreign align-virtual abandonment of the "little from three thousand to five thou-automatically. The lighting is pretty clear.

without shadows, and changes its ments, associated with the up-fellows' under the N.R.A., adding and dollars (from six hundred to colours periodically.

But Saturday was a day of ter- heaval. One thing is clear, that he was not inclined to "Toolne thousand pounds). By Ameri-urging alarm is touched, every rar. One feels sure that if the namely,

can standards, this is remarkably reont is lighted up, and the front male species knew just what he that the

movement with them any longer."

of the house is swept by light. looked like swimming-imitating a smacks of the Nazi order, in

a radio device on the frustrated starfish suffering from which there is to be no room ROOSEVELT POLICY whatever for freedom

It is suggested that house- dashboard of the householder's car acute indigestion he would con- It is impossible to believe that holders will be able to trade in" which controls the garage doors, fine his activities to the land. thought, speech or written word. Mr. Roosevelt will accept the John their old homes as part payment throwing them open when the car The only break in the day was All political parties are being son interpretation of the Report for new ones just as they exchange approaches.

when I discovered an old lady suppressed, Parliament is being and reject it as valueless. In automobiles. One big manufac- It is possible to talk from any with a hole in her costume. When replaced by a Government-nom-March last, analysing the NBA., turers' association is preparing room in the house to any other I made this known to her she was inated Chamber, and short work he declared: The Code author- large-scale fabrication of wood room-surely a dangerous opening so embarrassed that she crawled is evidently to be made of any ities are the keepers of their in-houses of a one-storey type. The to give 2 professional bore! all the way up the beach on her clements whose ideas run condustrial brothers and they must various sections can be made and There are Infra-red and ultra- back. trary to those of the new die-establish every safeguard against fitted together in fourteen daya, violet lamps. The house manu- tatorship. The hint that the so- using the small operator from One virtue urged on their behalf factures its own weather. Elabor- the Beene. The code should re- is that they can be quickly taken ate conditioning devices, based on called Muecedonian terrorist or-verse competitive methods where- apart, like dolls' houses, and erect-air ducts in the cellar, provide an ganisation is to be suppressed by the little fellow is being ed elsewhere.

evon temperature, summer and During the holidays I debated may be taken as an indication squeezed out." This is precisely The objections that would be winter.

with two or three modern thinkers that a reign of terror may be what, the Darrow Report charges, raised against these "reach-me- There are no fewer than seven the nature of the Ideal Anglo- instituted in this region, in ac- N.R.A. has falled to do. The big down" houses in England are not wireless sets, including an all-Saxon Outrage (non-violent)-- cordance with Nazi traditions corporations have used the codes forthcoming on this side of the wave receiver, which will supply that is, the outrage which, with- to put the small enterprises as Atlantic. One can readily imagine the listener with music from some out involving physical pain or less for subjugating political oppon- ents. In these ways is the Iron greater disadvantage. Their very Dean Inge denouncing this new point of the glabe or other at any of life, would stir the Colony most Fist" to be applied. The politicize has always given them a con- "bungalold eruption," but it must, given time. The price of install swiftly to shame and noble anger. siderable leeway over the small he remembered that while America ing these Robot servants is twelve al and moral decomposition cited man, through the method of mon- has a number of pretty villages thousand dollare.

We came to the conclusion (it as necessitating the establish- ovu

so on. and much lovely scenery, opolistic purchases and

it long

The engineers claim that these being then very late, and the ment of a dictatorship may well Code regulations have made things ago philosophically accepted the electrical equipments will be com- Great Bear swinging and burning be nothing more than a disin- more dileult for the little fellow weirdest architectural improvisa-mon in the American home in five low over a tumbling sea) that the

Outrage clination to bow the knee to without any compensating advan- tions and extravaganzas as part of or ten years' time. If a reni Ideal Anglo-Saxon reaction. The likely political tages.

the price exacted for the rapid measure of prosperity returns, that this: development of new towns and is quite possible. effects on

of Europe are equal importance. In this con- CODE "HONESTY" nection it is a strange twist of

If allegiance to the Code hud circumstance which seems to been honestly accepted by the big bring this new Nazi dictatorship corporations, in spirit as well as more into alignment with France in letter, the indictment of Mr. than with Germany or Italy, Darrow and his colleagues would Such is the expected upshot of have had less force. But it is well Bulgaria now turning towards a known that in many of the great policy of friendship and co- industries, nominal increases in operation with Yugo-Slavia. wages have been accompanied by demotions in the status of workers, Yet those who have been watch-placing them in a worse position ing events in the Balkans latter than before. Machinists who were ly will not be altogether sur- receiving 65 cents an hour have prised at the suggested rappro- been reduced to the official rank chement between the Bulgars of labourers, paid 45 cents an hour, and the Yugo-Slavs, for it was which included the codo wage in- not long ago that the two coun- crease, and given exactly the same trics concluded a commercial work to do.

treaty. This followed efforts by

the Little Entente to link up all SOMETHING TO BE SAVED the Balkan States, in which

It would not be fair to deduce King Alexander of Yugo-Slavia that NR.A. has falled completely was given the task of wooing and utterly. Distorted and per- Bulgaria, Italy, however, is verted by profiteers, it still con- obviously upset at the latest de- tains within its structure much velopments, for it was believed that enn be used to economic ad- that the ties between Rome.and vantage. But pitfalls that should Sofia had been greatly streng volded; N.H.A. has fallen into have been obvious have not been thened when King Boris was nearly every possible error open wed to an Italian Princess. to it, notably in pormitting the What the final outcome of the Big Business interests to form Bulgarian coup will be, It is im- their own bearda of control. possible to say. But in view of is possible, as suggested, that Mr. the interests of certain Powers Darrow may 30 sent from but in the preservation of specific Washington "in disgrace," spheres of influence in the Balk- there are facta behind his report ans, any marked change in that cannot be disregarded. He will bo vindicated ultimately, national policies in this restless either by the initiation region cannot be dismissed as of forms, or by the collapse of the small account.

code structure.

It

of re-

"Darling, these are my parents. You're going to love them."

"During the most solemn mo- ment of a Test match, a bishop sitting in the Members' Enclosure nt Lord's makes a deliberately frivolous reference to one of the jokes In the National Comic Weekly"

We also decided the Ideal Anglo- Saxon Death, which is to be struck on the head by a baronot with a bat signed by Hobbs.

•

CRISIS IN BOOKSY LAND.

The slightly hysterical book- critle who wrote, or screamed, the other day-

"Everyone will hail the arrival of a new and far bigger Ethet Mannin"

in doubtless by now feeling as hot and embarrassed as the rest of Mrs. Effort, general organiser of Kindness Week (1984),, sold yesterday:

បទ,

"Miss Mannin will have tho sympathy of everyone who profors her as she is now, petite and scorn- ful of men. To want her bigger ia absurd. We have plenty of enormous girls in the country al- ready who could not expose the con- temptible goings-on of men to save their lives.

"We are asking everybody to be specially charming to Miss Man nin during our forthcoming Kind- nons Week,"

havo

Meanwhile

the preas promised to start a fund to save.. Miss Mannin for the nation.

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