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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

ROOSEVELT POLICIES

NEWSPAPERS IN NAZI GERMANY

By J. E. WILLIAMS

The Very Idea!

POETS KNOW NOTHING (Contributed).

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THE mission of a newspaper differ widely. Economic condi-

N the top of a green hill Ter the type of the Yessische tions have hit the dearer news- I sate me down, and Zeitung in, in our opinion, coded." papers very badly. The success took a book from my pocket,

This excerpt, from the obituary ful radio propaganda and the and began to read.... notice of the great German news-radio news reporting thrice daily paper, speaks volumes concerning have also probably helped to the abroad I always slip-a book into the change which has come over same end. Or, again, so much of my pocket. For company. Or cultural Germany during the last the men's time has, in recent maybe to sit on if the grass be 18 months. After 230 years' ser- months, been taken up in storm-damp.

Whene'er I take my

walks

vice to the people, this newspaper, trooper meetings, parades and This time it was an anthology which had for generations main-drills that they have had little of verse... An anthology is tained some of the best traditions time for newspapers,

of German journalism, has been

President Roosevelt's blank_re- fusal to consider the removal of the collective bargaining clause from N.R.A. codes sets the scal upon his programme. With other ste tuken in the last week or so, the decision represents a deliber- ate defiance of demands that he halt the New Deal. He has made It clear not only that he is not stopping but that in going on, he is moving if anything to the Left, He refuses to "restore confidence" by assuring business that it will be "left alone.” The attitude is politically significant in view of the forthcoming elections. It is plain notice that his programme comes before Party ties, that the

rather like a box of mixed choco- break with conservatism la clean.

Intas or a bottle of ditto pickles. More than that, it expresses the

You open it, stick in your fork at firm conviction that progressive

But these conditions do not ex-randem, and out comes a sonnet, sentiment is strong enough to en-ed as a small "Diary" in the form

or a chocolate almond, or a nied able him to carry through the reat of a half sheet quarto size, It plain everything. The reading warty gherkin. There is

some. of his plana.

sought to report events in the publie upon which a newspaper thing in it to suit every mood.

As else- So I ante me down and began to Holy Roman Empire," Later, it depends, in Germany became the Berlinische Privile-where, is composed not so much read. And ton minutes later I President Roosevelt thinks of vierte Zeitung, appearing three of casual purchasers as upon that rose in my wrath and said to water buiTato who happened to bo near, his Administration still a the times weekly. In more

very solid and permanent audience "What are these poets are!" To to which it has been accustomed which the beast mndo no answer. "humble instrument" of "the great times it was national movement that culmii-

the organ of the There is somo educated liberal Berliner. The to speak year in and year out. but went on stuffing grass into her danger In the assumption. The high standard set by the Lessings This is a public which grows to manyplies or third stomach. Deferred Term-Repurchase-Llrence & In- people undoubtedly gave

Pail particulars

Mr. was continued by Messrs. Ullstein, PUPANTO ATTangėd.

ooosevelt a mandate, for change. who took it over on Jan. 1, 1914. pileation.

But it is not so certain that they are altogether antlufied, either with the changes so far wrought or with those outlined for the future. The President's own

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ment in most essentials. It is just this "cultural community" of paper and reader which has been Similarly, the Frankfurter Zeideatroyed in Germany. tung, while it still appears in Its

This "cultural community" has familiar typographical form, has been destroyed because the public completely passed out of the con- trol of the ownera who built its international reputation..

Hongkong Telegraph exploiters and in saying that those brought into complete conformity

TUESDAY, SEPT, 11, 1934.

BUDGET OUTLOOK

| same

CLARIFICATION NEEDED

which was

Jin which connection the Govern-erceive in the Administration's ormously; that, for example, in National Socialist principle of

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For these beautiful poems told but half the truth, and left the poor reader In ignor- ance of the real facts,

Take Mr. Shakespeare and his bank. You know the thing. All about wild thyme and dandelions and modest vielets. Very pretty and all that. But I also know a bank. I was sitting on it, and if

truth about it— you would like the unvarnished

I know a bank where the carwig

croops,

And busy ants pile up their crowded heaps;

Where slugs do crawl and leather-

juckets ijc.

Where lithe and hairy daddy-

long-legs fly.

And look at nil that ́stuff about

Hark, hark the lark at heaven's

pate sings, And ace the loatheomo flics; The noisome quat, the wasp that

stings,

And maken the bumps to rise, And makes the bumps to riac, And blinking little bugs begin To bite my nose and eyes,

And make me itch and smart like

siu,

My lady weet, arisa.

splendid confidence which helped so much in 1933 will not serve so well to-day. The country is less

has lost confidence in its bourgeois frightened and more critical. Ho

The conformity of the is right in denying that confidence

The press. depends on giving free rein to paper has been "aryanized," and press to National Socialist ideas, consummated in the

who would measure confidence with the. must "look to the averago man." exist unter the National Socialist

new conditions which press law, turned journalists into state officials with better material Yet all who want freer business

conditions, but deprived them presy. Founded are not exploiters, and to-day the control of the

of freedom of expression as it is years average man has questions about seventy-eight

ago, the the New Desi that he did not have Frankfurter, until 1931, was the Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of understood in Anglo-Saxon lands. a year ago. He knows that some absolute property of the Simon-

realize Propaganda, quick to portiona of it have been conflicting Sonnemann family, but in that changes in publie feelings, has the lark at heaven's gate. Not a The Colony's Budget is due to

in purpose. He has begun to see be introduced in the Legislative that a tremendous expansion of year financial reasons led to the more than once expressed his dis single mention of September bugs Council this week. It is not to federal services is a hazardous transfer of something more than satisfaction with the present Ger- or centipedes. And you know be expected that it will contain business when reforms must bo one-third of its stock. The con-

the place Wax, surprises, many

since the

administered by a personnel untrol remained the same, however, favour of constructive criticism.lind he thought to ask me about

man press, declaring himself in jolly well that

simply crawling with them. Now dermined by the "spoils system." until possession and management, But the German journalist luas not it- Government policy is still one of marked caution. This is to

within recent months, passed to ayat ventured to decide what is some extent understandable, for

group headed by a former Prest-constructive" criticism in the It has to be confessed, too, that dont of the German state of Badon. terms of the new law, which av the Colony is still under a cloud of depression, but, at the Americans are confused by the multiplicity of projects launched time, there will be a

The fate that has overtaken the circumscribes his activities that by the Government. And many Yoas, general hope that the pro-

the Frankfurter and his work is simply colourless. In who have the utmost sympathy many provincini newspapers thren-fact, he has been told that not gramme for the coming year will

with the ideals of honest busines not be unduly curtailed for rea-and social justice, and even with

tena to overwhelm a number of criticism but interpretation la his sons of economy. In times like some specific measures under the other bourgeois publications, to task-interpretation of what the the present, there is a danger in Now Deal, are profoundly dis-judge from the reports of their Government tolls him. the over-emphasis of economy, al trends which they believe they show that sales have dropped en- trustful of some of the fundament, dwindling circulations. These

This is quite in keeping with the

ment policy of maintaining a course, The President would

leadership leadership from above,

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dood, and hare down the road, degree of criticism. Presum-gramme and purifying its admin-hundreds of thousands of readers, well-nigh impossible for four-shaking the spiders out of her ably the iden is that it is prudentistration than by reiteration of his in Berlin alone, the number is lists accustomed to write quite lingerie and yelling blue murder. to make provision for a rainyen he could well afford to ignore to this is added the complete or imagination into their interpre have seen a garden, and-most-of belief that the people are for it. estimated at more than 500,000. differently for decades to put fre Some of these poets could never day, but actually the rainy day, the conservatives and their pro- disappearance of the Communist tative messages. For economic their stuff reads as if it were if not indeed the deluge, appears already to have arrived, and

and Socialist press, the figure ls and other motives they may do written in a West Point cabaret tremendous. The Increased cir- much, but their heart is not Infar from the madding mosquito. there seems little reason to fear

culation which has accrued to the it. that the situation will become.

National Socialist press, since that appreciably worse than it now

party became the Government, has is. In any event, there scarcely

by no means compensated for seems any justification for main

these lossen, taining an idle balance of ap proximately a third of the

are receiving only the scantleat In other words, the German information on matters which Colony's yearly revenue whilst to antagonise rather than improve public are fost ceaning to be vitally concern them selves. there are pressing public works the cinema. It is far from desir- readers of their own press. While "Every newspaper, as a result of which might be expedited. In-able that the cinema should repeat many of the better educated now the National Socialist revolution, the history of the relations of the read more Swiss, English and has been set a task which cannot deed, the Government itself, by theatre and organised religion. French newspapers, the majority be settled overnight," one promin a policy of wise spending at this Even during the greatest age of of the population seems to have ent German journalist recently juncture, could help towards dis- the English drama. the Eliza-simply abandoned newspaper read-declared. At the moment it is in pelling some of the business bethan, the theatre failed to ful-

ing altogether. Explanations the midst, of this task. depression still being felt. The flits highest niission partly be finances of the Colony, to judge between it and the religious de- cause of the hostility that existed from the half-yearly statement nominations of its time. Later, just issued, are thoroughly the shutting of the theatres by the sound. Revenue is, it is true, Puritans, In Professor Quiller Isomewhat down on the corres Couch's opinion, was the chief ponding six months of last year, might have given to the drams a reason why John Milton, who but it still considerably exceeds note of sublimity that it has gen- outgoings. The higher rate of crally lacked, abandoned the Iden exchange has naturally been a of composing "Paradise Lost" as factor in keeping expenditure play. And for two centuries down, but there seems little rea-subsequently the English theatre son to think that the dollar will was in large measure given over seriously decline in the coming cause it was boycotted by the to scurrility and worthlessness be- churches and by everything for be in the other direction, in which the churches stood. which event the effect on the

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tlona. Such attention should bo tually finance itself, and, as it given to the cinema; and it need will be spread over a number of and constructive. It is odd that, not in any way be less than critical years, a special fund for the although many bodies have been whole undertaking is very wisely formed with the object of boycot- being created. There is, how-ting bad films, so similar organ- ever, no reason why a real start isations have been established for should not be made on this pro- praising and recommending good ject; further delay seems un- ones, Yot the surest of all Justified. Taking the situationstrable Alma la by encouraging the methods for getting rid of unde- in the large,, wo know of no Buccess of those thint aro desirable, Cause why the Government.

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But this wilful suppression of the facts must be put right. Browning, for instance, with his The German people are alone but see my poor little Maman

"Oh, to be in England."

... Could rapidly losing vital interest in Cochet fighting for her life against their press, because they feel they drought and peat and disease, he

might alter his tune.

"Why le she taking this cruise around the world, If. It isn't to

fot liar. hair grow back to its natural colour?”...

Oh, to be in England, Now that Juno is there,

And whoever lives in England Finds his choicest roses bare; And the leaves all chowed where

the cuckoo-spit

And the caterpillar have done

their bit,

While the lawnmower makes a

ghostly row

In England, now!

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