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THURSDAY, JULY
NOTES OF THE DAY
THE HEAT WAVE
an
like n
assistance towards this cnu.
19, 1934.
ASCOT A LA RUSSE
MOSCOW'S LUXURY MEETING
FOR "CLASS" HORSES
By JAMES E. ABBE
HE udelal Press agent
my side and beamed at the gala spec- tacle spread out before us.
women,
The Very Idea!
BOOK OF ASUWERUS. (Contributed). CHAPTER 1,
NOW Asuwerus the son of
Aseidoo, the son of dwelt in the land of Eng. And the land was
Bunk,
I noticed that the Russian jockeys
those in other populous.
were heavier than
CHAPTER 2. Now Asuwcras was forty days
The heat wave is doing its best to establish local records for July, and for those who find satisfaction in such phenomena, hopes are be ing daily raised by reports from
for the events, which largely predominato the Royal Observatory. In the
Tafoscow racetrack-the only Prose horn racing in Russia. meantime, city workers strive mani- fully to shake off the insidious feel-agunt in the Soviet Union-stood at
2. And the people of Eng Ing of lethargy which accompanies
Tho viera sunshine of a summer's countries, both in the saddle and in atmosphere of 98 degrees
cent day in Moscow shone luxuriously upon sulkies. I asked Director Huskin why worshipped divers Gods. And Fahrenheit and 89 per
racotrack. this should bo. "Wo are trying to Pro-Revolutionary the humidity, and which cause one at Under the great tribung root it was breed horses capable of carrying heavy Asuwerus worshipped the Gods 3. And the Gods hold converse the end of a day's work to realise a cool and gay, the coolest and most weights" he explained. When the each day. Yea, he went up unto mental and physical exhaustion gay place in Moscow, perhaps in the jockey is not heavy we make up the the City to worship.
U.S.S.R. White-aproned walters hur-difference by placing weights under which at times seems almost un-ried about serving beer, tea, aperitife, the saddle," this was in keeping with Aauwerus; they spoke even as bearable. Nevertheless there is whatever the clito gathering fancied with what I had heard before-that
4. And he answered, Here am I. the psychological effect to be con- and, in violation of all Soviet, ethics, the Horse Trust was engaged in breed-out of a great cloud, and said, sidered, and while our bodies are smilingly pocketed generous tips for ing super, cavalry horses, among other Asuwerus, ABuworus.
their service. On the ribune werotypes. Russia pisces much stress on
An I watched the spectators placing Get thee to Kong, that distant land, bound to remain in a heated state the new Aristocracy of the Proletariat the importance of cavalry in war time, And the Gods said, Get thee hence,
superior-looking falk who had made In such weather, it is possible, by the best of what they could secure to their bets in the parl-mutuel betting and preach the words that we shall 5. And take with theo cotton, on the face of good old
and the influence of the mind, to keep look chic and elegant. There were booths I thought of the look of amazo tell thee of.
whose gowns, ment It handsome
though not le dernier cri from the Rue Proletarian Commissar Litvinov, when cooler than one might expect.
6. And thy wife, and thy cattle, should, indeed, be the aim of Pair, which one is cruntomed I informed him that there was actually and iron and strong drink
The Director himself showed signs and thy dogs, thy goods and thy everyone to endeavour to "think to observe at Nice, Longchamps, or horse-racing and leguiled betting in every manner of merchandise.
tive. And the snowy-white tunics of cool." This mental action cannot, Deauville, were nevertheless attrae- Moscow.
and GPU (Secret of a strain of blue blood. Dressed in chattels, take thou them all
7. And Asuwerus arose, and did the Ited Army patented utensil, be a
and a smart, well-tailored riding costumo guaranteed method of keeping one Police) officers scattered here heat-proof but it can be of great there and there, fent that finished with polished boots, he had bearing. all that the Gods commanded, and touch to a fashionable scene which dignity--class written all over him.
lle even smoked his tubular Russian gat him hence.
suspected him of only the military can give.
cigarette claintily, being a "gentleman." At least, he In the Royal Box, where formerly was a connoisseur of good blood in a
to possess in sojourning until he came to the Fat the Tears of all the Russins and nation which is reputed SAMOS ISLAND TRAGEDY
their guests of blue bland, there was one-third of all the horse population land of King. And behold, the encompassed by great strange as it may seem-Royalty! A in the world. The Director spoke with land was
2. And it was peopled with The Samos island incident, which Royal Prince of Iraq, sitting with pride of the progress of horro breed-waters, and was very mountainous. noble mien in the midst of high Pro-ing in the U.S.S.R., expertly pointing
who face out to me the fine points of the various divors peoples worshipped But chief among resulted in the death of one British letarian officials, his bronzed naval officer, and the wounding of framed in the billowing folds of his animais as they swung past,
white burnoose.
"Do you have horse-racing in other strange Gods. another, Is as mystifying as it is
Outside the Royal box (the Taarist eitles in Russia?" I asked him, as If the nations were those who wor tragic. The contradictory versions Double-Eagle and been removed by watched a visiting engineer present (shipped among the High Places, a cinema operator cranked his camera to the accompaniment of thunderous who offered sacrifices, even burnt ancrifices on the uttermost Peaks. Mr. Chan Two Hang alins Chan Shi,of the affair given by the Turkish aristocracy-hating Communist hands) the winning driver with a money prize, for they were as it were Levites,
Funeral will take place at ad English officials only serve to from the terrace below, that a record applause from the crowd.
"Ob, yes," he replied, "the State a. They were a special race, on the 20th July, 1934, when the
the Sovietlacd Moscow Horse-Breeding Trust controls other chosen people whose raiment was remains of the deceased will be leave the position unsatisfactory,might be kept of the first visit of
Royalty to with a feeling that someone had Hippodrome. And over the rim of the racecourses in Leningrad, Rehl back to his native country.
blundered. Even the acceptance of high tracks wall jutted the fantastic Kiev, Kharkov, Tiflis, and in other im white, yea, of the whitest. And minarets and church-lowers of semi-portant centres. Practically every they sang songs of praise continu- And their the Turkish explanation, that
Asiatic Moscow, the only reminder city of any size in the Soviet Union ally, saying Who is like unto him, Customs officer fired the naval that on "the other side of the fenes has its racetrack and breeding stables, who dwelleth on High?
4. And their chief God was a a stifling mass of poorly-clad But only the larger ones are controlled scribe he was Dispenyalas.
and cipally controlled, though, of course, mighty one for he said do this and Turkish territory, mistaking them humanity which gathered daily at the by our treat. The others are munt-
Sukareviky Market to barter
it was done on the instant, for his for smugglers, does not offer a haggle for the pathetic remnants of belonging to the State.
Just so many centres, I thought, for power extended to all the corners antisfactory solution. The absolute the bare necessities of life.
The finely-chiselled face of the visit-
5. And his voice Was heard contradiction in evidence calls forence, who, with his entourage, awakening the Proletariat to realisa. of the Land.
throughout the city and in the the very strietest investigation. had been the honoured guest of the tion of the inevitability of class dis
The Director broke in upon myplains beyond the waters, for it as terrible ns a pen! of AL the present moment, taking Soviet Government for the past week, tinction, whatever the civilisation.
housed in an Old Regime palace--was Tariffs, whilst possessing un-every factor into consideration, the enigmatic as he gazed at the scene, thoughts with an invitation to have was
was before him. His Highness might have ten with him in the excellent racetrack trumpets, And there were many. doubted value under given condi- natural reaction is, whoever
CHAPTER 3. At into the programme of "building the few in nli Russin, and the only tions, can easily defeat their own responsible for the shooting acted been asking himself how did all this restaurant. This restaurant is one of servante in his hotse
can get all the food they want, with
Aforetime there was a great war. ends. The United States ap-in a rather precipitous mamer. Socialism." The atmosphere was just place I know of where the Proletariat
keeping with the short of being downright snobbish. pears to be coming to a realian-scarcely in tion of this point, for it has just necessities of the case. been announced that the State Department in Washington is
Stubbs Road.
DEATH.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.parts after they had landed
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934.
TARIFF DANGERS
♫
on
WAA
While
we
1090,
Odessa,
to
die..
Q
that
I turned in the little Press gent at out food-cards or rationing-provided
longued themselves together, my side, "C'est bien elegantes" I said they have the money. With inflation And after the peace, the nations falling naturally into the court langu- the rouble isn't worth much, and the they fight no more,
And, there arose a prophet in the barent more than age of the old aristocracy. "I must Proletarians don't make enough
was the the land who cried and said, yet congratulate you and your Horen afford them
seven years, and a blight shali afflict directing its efforts to let in DANGEROUS DRIVING
Trust-nuding mentally, "and. your necessities. The racetrack Proletarian Dictatorship, for having only place in Russia where there was about two hundred million dol-
3. And their ships shall be idle, lars' worth of additional imports,
Controlled areas are not the only arrived at the stage where you openly any gamble left in life, where they all the nations, and their cattle shal breed for clans." He merely shrugged had any chance to make a few roubles
leisurely and the corn shall fail, Ilkewise there lunched in places where eare is needed in and led the way to the box placed at "un the side.” with the idea of increasing the
no wine nor yet any oil. - purchasing power of foreign na-
Trust, which controls the racetrack. fashion, I observed inany a hungry shall be
4. And the people of Kong were tions for reciprocal, purchases motoring. The other day, a carniy disposal by officials of the Horse
was seen zipping along at some it was nearly as spacious and elegant winner gather in his harvest of roubles And it came to PERS from the United States. It has
as the Royal Box, hut had never been with enger hands and make a boit been computed that the Ameri- thing like Sö miles an-hour dawn a
in which children decorated with the Double Eagle of toward the heaven of food that more stricken, and the Levites cried the Thurs. I sat between the Press awaited him in the racetrack restaur-aloud-and-said, Alas! For the plea.. ean tariff on twenty-one pro- narrow strect
Actually, nobody agent and the Director of the Horseant. They were sitting all about me, sant places are made desolate, and earnestly and our gold and our silver, where is it? 5. Therefore they made Kreat duets, which constitute less than were playing. fifteen per cent. of the total was hurt. It just happened that Trust, M. Huskin. 1 conversed in gorging themselves
French with the U.S.S.I's only Press happily, their pleasure but slightly
said, I will appoint me wise men who dutiable imports of the United all the chikiren kept out of there, he seemed to delight in speak. dimmed by the realisation that text lamentation. And the God heard and shall enquire lalu the matter, and States, costs the consumer in car's path. Zobody suddenly, for-ing that bourgeois language which time they may
The Horse Trust horses, of course, they shall determine the causea of America more than half a billion
Old Regime.
6. But Asuwerus arose and called dollars each year. This fact is got and chased a rolling ball out stamped him as a holdover from the
From our seat in the box we looked always win-they are the only horack this famine. cited as an illustration of the into the street; no chill dashed out
beautifully-kept comes to paying off the winner of the unto the people saying what meaneth four
Commission? And they said in which high import and headed out for the opposite out over the picturesque and historic entered. This makes it easy when it
it shall determine the duties on certain goods involve a curl Children get absorbed intencks which paralleled each other, and annual Soviet Derby. The grand pris huge cost to the people as a whole their play and do such things formed one of the finest racecourses on Derby Dnywhich they call, in unto him,
running horses and the silken-capped before, the Horse Trust horse always fort thee? Should yet the causes of
amounts to 20,000 roubles. As 1 Raid turn replied.
7. And he said, How can this com while affording protection to a frequently; this time they didn't.in the world. One was of turf for the their Proletarian way, Derby Day causes of our distress. And ho in
wina. relatively insignificant group in But the point is that if one of them jackeys, whose gay blouses
Now the races were over for the the distress be made plain, the ro- medy is beyond thee. Turn thee industry. At the moment, much had done so, that car never could varicoloured despite the fact that they all rode for the same stables-the attention is being centred on
stopped in
Trust. afternoon. The Russian summer aus time.Government-owned Horse
a little while thy burden shall be (Continued on Page 7.) possible trade concessions which Technically the driver might have There was another track for tho was still high in the bright blue sky, aside and worship the truth and in
eased. might be made under a reciprocal been guiltless: but no one who has steeplechase, and two for the trotting tariff bargaining procedure with other nations, and in this connec- een cars dashing along streets tion it is becoming increasingly where children are playing would felt that there are many products have found it easy to forgive him. upon which the duty might be The man who drives fast where decreased without materially af- children are playing is a potential fecting the American_manufac-killer. turer and producer. The chief
manner
need is a reduction of existing
laye been
Trade barriers by lowering the OLD AND NEW duties which clearly lack econ- omic justification. Included amongst these are tariffs which
The blue stretches of the mid- now completely or almost com-Atlantic offered a fascinating and pietely exclude foreign competi- uncommon sight not long ago-the tion, those of abnormally high spectacle of a race between an old- rates like 50 per cent, or more
the
ad valorem, protective duties time square-rigged aalling vessel which have been in force a con- and one of the fastest of modern siderable time without bringing ocean greyhounds. The four-mast- about a substantial production of ed bark Abraham Rydberg was the protected cominodities in coming up from Australia to Eng- relation to domestic require land, carrying grain. She was fly- ments, and duties on articles ing before a moderate gale at a which are more or lesa non-prodigious clip-and suddenly she
herself alongside competitive with American pro-round ducts and with respect to which Mauretania, going in the same certain foreign countries possess direction. And while the Maure a clear inherent advantage. The tamin's passengers lined the rails,"| fact is that the decline in prices the skipper of the bark cracked on between 1929 and 1933 has served to make all specific duties all sail and, for a time, actually held much higher than was intended, abreast of the great linor. In the and in some cases the resultant ond, of course when the wind mad- increases has been almost fan-erated, the steamor drew ahead, But the tastic. Obviously, in the in- and the "race" was over. terests of the consumer and of event is a deeply interesting lus- encouragement of a greater trailon of the fact that, when volume of foreign trade, there is conditions are just right, the a call for lower tariffs in many windjammer can hold her own with commodities. And the United the best of them--for a little while, States Government is now fully conscious of this fact.
anyway.
raccenurse,
were
"I think you're just buying one more thing we haven't any use for."
this
8. Turn aside from the pleasures of power. Thy public men have slaves, yea in their multitude and is not their wealth reckoned by hundreds of shokels?. Dost thou not employ many hundreds of scribes and over- seers of the people that the tax gatherers multiply?
9. For the Scribes devour the innd of its substance and the tax gatherers are hard put to satisfy them. They oppress the people with heavy taxes yea they even weigh their chariots that nono escapo...
10. All these words did Asuwerus speak to the people. But they heeded him not. And it cania to pass that the depression ld become greater and darken the land.
CHAPTER 4.
Now the Levlies were not content. For they cried mightily and with a loud noise.
2. And they said, make the ascent unto the Holy Places, yea.even unto the furthermost peaks, easy unto our feet. For we be woary and the day be hot,
3. Therefore they prayed the Lord.. even he who hath command of thu King's men of war, saying, wo pray thee, make a way for us from the level no that we may go up in con- fort. But he headed them not.
4. And they renewed their ery and made petition unto the God saying wo be of the elect and our pride on suffereth that we must ascend
of the foot. And tho barbarians
Grant us Plains hold us to scorn. therefore our petition.
b. And moreover they cried, the cost of the way of the ascent be teo great, therefore hearkon unto the cry: of thy chosen ones, for the prica should not be more than ton cents. .Eaxo us of our burden, we pray thee, and restrain. thy taxgatherers and the moneychangers.
0. But it was the silly sonson anst the God heeded them not
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