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NOTES OF THE DAY SOVIET RUSSIA:
DISARMAMENT
A ROSY VIEW:
BY W. A. HEWLETT
Mr. Henderson's decision to call a meeting of the Disarmament Commission for early September) reflects the improved situation in Europe. It is for the moment OR six weeks I was In the four Industrial Front. We want trifle premature. Germany has United Socialist Soviet Re-Industrial goods and muchines to Indicate her altitude public, travelling from Leningrad make. machines, automobile en- yet to
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MONDAY JULY 15, 1934.
The Very Idea!
OLD HONGKONG By George.
THE birth of the night- watchman was about
1945.
Since then this band of loyal
the scheme, of
night
one would be foolish enough to in the Don Basin and into steel developed the problem of increased guardians of the Colony's trea- attempt to presa for disarmament works and rolling mills, spending city population with all that ac-sures have been practising out- dayn on collective farms in the companies it. Our Grain Front in a monent after the Reich had Ukraine, and being treated at rent the meantime has been dealt with door sleeping with an assiduity on the lines of State and collective and hardiness envied even by decided to stand out of the Eastern homes on the Black Sen,
am a worker and student, and farms, and we shall not lose sight coolies. Locarno, Refusal to adhere would
When he accopted as confirmation of the have spent much of my time in- of the fact that to accomplish our quiring into theories of human end we must strive to keep the fears that have blocked all efforts relationships, from Socrates and balance between these two sides watching was introduced, the diffi for arms reductions and the fundo-Plate down to Malthus, Darwin of our economic problem.
I am acquainted with "This is the problem that con-culty of getting the unfortunate. mental cleavage in the Franco- and Marx.
of men ille Robert fronts every country in the world Sikh to stay awake at night was German outlook, becoming the the efforts more apparent, would express it- Owen, who tried to overcome the and has done so from the begin- overcome by giving him a couple
our joy contradictions of Capitalist society ning of time, and
is of pieces of bamboo which he derived
resulta webanged together at frequent inter- aelf in a race for military power.which from time to time become obtaluing."
from the On the other hand, it only needs acute as to give rise to fear and
to "You work very hard," I perafst, vals partly with the iden of letting
know
that burglars Germany's signature to bring every doubt concerning more being "and the amount of leisure and potential nation in Europe Back to Geneva himself and society from
overwhelmed with the problems of comfort you get is not to be com- though seared, he was awake, but
with what we have pared
in and happier #1
more with the object of making his making.
OWN frame of mind,
Some
May man is a creature of England." environment, while others Insist)
"So you think." they answered, his employer share his vigil. that he is not capable of overcomcomfort differ from yours.
["but"
our ideas of, İciaure and
What Ing โรโฟ heredity.. Therefore schools of philosophy throughout it that occupies the leisure time all times have been wearing of the people of England? There
and theories of is football, which draws thou beautiful webs
this all-sands: the cinema, with its cheap every pattern around
or should we say dear-film from important question.
In 1917 as the result of cir-Hollywood, that high water mark
One of the pioneers in the pre- cumstances which could not be of American culture; the publle- met by any other method, agro horsee and dogs entier thousands less watchmen was the then G.O.C.. house, the racecourse. Bathvention of bamboo beating by rest- of determinista in Russia, led napon thousands to spend their time Maj. Gen. Agullar who preferred an idealist Lenin, attempted
FEAR
reasonable
nations have a will to peace.
EASTERN LOCARNO
Upon Germany's decisign. to cannot finally he organised.
of
When the burglars arrived warning was given either by knocking the miscreants' heads together, or, more often, by an Involuntary tattoo beaten by the -watchman's knees..
the
"Now the G.O.C. enn rest quiet-
wight who has dollars-be they in his bed but uneasy is the poor never so chopped-in his sock" This comments George in his re- view of the astonishing action. taken by Council at that time..
Now we say "Tut!"-and again
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are still many Doubtless there individuals who will regard any sort of regional Locarno Pact with critical eyes despite obvious politi- cal advantages. It is impossible, for instance, to overlook the fact that such agreements are still
experiment on a great scale. So, trying to find the animal that will ultimately governed by fear, completely and with such ruth-win the next rnce, and all with that watchmen should testify their fear of consequences. And againlessness have, they changed the the idea of getting something for vigilance by snores rather than they do not provide for a situation order of things that one is amazed nothing. That is what you call bamboo beating which was offen-
comfort.
"Sleep, sweet sive to his eur. brought that might easily develop, an in such changes could be
"Is there anyone. In England, sleep" WHS banished from trigue between several signatories about in so short a spice of time.
The first
thing that attracts from your Socialist Premier to the of such trenty to act jointly one's attention on landing at meanent worker, who can feel com- warrior's pillow untii by the exer- against the remainder. The eLeningrad is the joyful activity, fartable about the future prospectation of his martint will an order sential fact remains unchallenged. Men and women are performing of Industrial Britain? Is there an was passed prohibiting the noct Pence can only be assured when alike the meanest and the might-industrialist employer or employee urnal racket which was said to he
at the universal In China: feels any security Iest task with the same
cheerful who courage. They have a healthy ap-present moment? The dread of spectre that in- their clothes unemployment is pearance although are a little shabby, and their song cessantly dogs the happy and com- the
fortable British people. enter or not to enter upon
may be heard as you paas.
"Look at your young people. proposed Eastern Locarno Pack WHAT GOAL?
To me, coming from England, where there are nearly three mit Hundreds and thousands of them depends the whole future of the
Hon workers unemployed and ataught to read and write, only to system of collective action by na- The bitter argument still pro- Government In power that is be enrolled on your Labour Ex- can to set up tariff changes without any ability to tions for the preservation of penec.ceeding in the United States on doing all it
bit of barriera lest We should
↓ do too follow any specialised craft or in- "Shucks!" N.R.A. is one more
in Russin or- Nothing is clearer than that. the
This having made us much side much trade with our customers, it dustry; while we Thal
good AL
part
ganise our work on a basis of 71 There may be features of the sys- proof
4ak these workers "Why this five-day week with one day's rest. shake we print hereunto the can do tem that do not at present com- America's troubles to-day arise seemed very strange.
they
"Our day's rest is not fixed; it menu of Hongkong barber. in- mend themselves to pence-loving because people are not quite sure pleasure in Inbour?" and
what they want a planned economy answer with engerness that they is a different day for each men and women. There are obvi
to do. On the one hand the have worked out a scheme of dustry.
"In Moscow we are laying an mis dangers in pledges by any
N.R.A. gets condemned as too Socialist competition with a view radical. Mr. Darrow replies that to everyone producing to the last underground railway to deal with ounce of his ability. "Our duty," our traffic problem. We shall look it is not half radical, enough they say," is to increase the fund on it with pride because men of that it tends to congeal the exist of wealth that all may get more, all grades have laboured side by
form.
and if we are given peace from aide with pick and shovel in its ing urder in monopolistic Furthermore, the Darrow report
"Our industries-such as coal, itself refected a similar contra-r enemies we shall attain that construction.
it. diction. In one paragraph
iron and steel, engineering, textile "But," question, "when you have their own farms, fishing French understanding which must extinguish competition, by have attained it will you, not pine trawlers, shops and stores, so that go far towards allaying fears and which alone could the original for something more?" Their in-they will never find themselves virtues of the old-time American variable answer is "Maybe we with instrumental goods they can- converting the glimmer of hope society be kept alive; in another will, but we do not look for new not sell, as is often the case in into a shining ray in the political paragraph it asserted that com- problems before we have solved England, where you are entirely dependent upon the whim of the darkness. It is almost unanimous petition must, by the very nature the ane in hand."
of things, be wolfish and cruel.
"Do you as workers see clearly agricultural countries of the world ly accepted as a sound solution in Britain, France, Italy. Russia, Poland and the United States. MONOPOLY ABUSES And the importance of this Hes nat so much in the wholehearted on- And in rebuttal, General Johnson rand Mr. Richberg asserted that. dorsement of this particular
the N.K.A, is . fine and lofty gional agreement. but in the
charter under which America will endorsement it implies of the and her way to a new freedom. what general principle, and in the in- Coraing down to realition,
kind of yardstick eau be applied dication that nations, are genuinely to this tremendous movement? prepared to pay the premiums of How far do people want to keep Insurance and are more honest in competition alive? To their will Lo implement their tent do the ill effects of free com- petition balance its benefits? How promises of cqniman action against capably ean the authorities pro- a common danger. The unanimity tect the ordinary citizen from which may monopolistic abuses manifest has been both surpris spring up under the codes? These ing and encouraging.
are not questions that can
They longer be questioned that Europe's answered offhand,
a great deal of study.
group of powers to take sanctions against a hypothetical aggressor in Doubts are not the event of war. entirely confined to the borders of the Reich. There is, however, one
outstanding feature of the Anglo-lined that the codes tended Mard of life for which we have
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innermost desire is for a
stabilised pence. The Impression
is given that the nations have FOR THE MAJORITY
been
nervote.
to
al waiting watchful
what ex-
be
пеед
IL is
A circumstance ready to spring Even
which must prove intensely stil arms but
waiting
aggravating to those who are earnestly for the harbinger of seeking to pull the nation through penee. The form of Locarno Pact present trials, that the men in- for the nations of Eastern Europe mediately concerned are conduct- ing personal arguments with one which is to be submitted as the
Another and calling each others' result of the Simon-Barthou con- motives into question when an unbiassed and detailed-examina- versations seems to have been setion of the issues is badly needed. interpreted, the herald of stability, But in the long run even a deter- to have fürnished the solution mination of the facts will not be which has so long been awaited, enough. For in the end the course It is dificult to offer any other to be taken must depend on the goal which the majority wants to explanation for the striking open- reach.
ch. Everybody desires. arms response. Only Germany trial life, of course-more jobs, smoother and more emelant indus- and she may at this stage be for higher wages, better profits, and riven for a close questioning much less uncertainty. But few scrutiny. holds aloof for the mo- people seem to have figured much
farther than that. ment. The situation has ita unxious moments. The greater the hopes that are aroused, so in proportion here. If this glimmer of hope is must be the senso of calamily that blotted out, there will be no other would accompany their destruc- for many a day. Herr Hitler must flon. Germany, once again, is see that in algnature, Germany faced with a heavy responsibility, stands to gain for more than aho She almply cannot refuse to ad- is likely to sacrifice,
n
them.
the problems that confront you?" for
or your food supplies. "Yes we do; and, what is more, "Our young people are being our plans are laid for dealing with trained, not in any slipshod or of 160 haphazard way, but with the In- We are a nation million people, and our first duty tent that, at an early are they will is to grow sufficient food where be fitted for some useful vocation. with to feed ourselves. That In England work is degraded and means that we shall have to cul-the worker is always trying to tivate our land with such effiefener dedge it. In Itussia work a that It will not leave any doubt honoured and the worker glori
fied." about our food supplies.
This is what the workers told me "We have, in fact, two Fronts. There has been for the first Five-in Russia. How does it seem to Year Plan an extensive battle on you?
"Cheer up. "How do you know the next fellow who comes in hare won't fall in love with you?"
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DRINKERS ELEGY.
"The "midnight" clock-tolls-out-the-
passing day,
The last ferry puts slowly out in
CR,
The gay lads homeward plod their
weary way,
And leave the hotel bar to darkness
and to mo.
Now fades my oft drained whisky
un the sight
And all the glass an empty nothing
holds
Suve where my face reflected in the
light
Its vacant benuty drunkenly, extola."
Save that from yonder plaintive
clock,
The moping hands do to the Boy
complain
Of such as, heading not her quiet
tick-tock
Distort her pale and sickly face-
with pain.
Beneath that old clock piece, that
long bar's shade,
Where many a man has heaved in:
moldering heap,
(And romo in prison cells have
laid)
The mildewed ghosts of Inmous
drinkers sleep.
The breezy call of heavy headed
mom,
The children playing with unthink
ing trend
The milk man's clarion, nor the
motor hora
Shall draw forth curses from his
tired bed.
For him no more the flaming cup
shall burn
Or busy housewife scold him for a
bear Or children, at his carly morn
return,
A
Chase him with glee, his spirits gay
to 'share.
Oft did the tumbler to Mis gullet.
yield,
Endurance records many has ho
broke:
How Jocund was he on a foreign
flohi
When others paid and he but enlled
the strokut
Let not us cocktail drinkers mock- Their beery products or their ales
olmeure:
Nor "Angel Klas" and others of her
stock,
Who could not make a schoolboy:
find the NeoΣ.
The foam of Omters, the power of
punch,
· gavė.
And all that Allsopps, all that spirits. Disperse alike the selorest hunch: The smell of spirits cheers the
'drinker's grave.
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