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NOTES OF THE DAY

ROOSEVELT POLICIES

President Roosevelt's blank re- fusal to consider the removal of the collective bargaining clauso from N.R.A. codes acts the seal upon his programme. With other steps taken the week or so,

1934.

NEWSPAPERS IN NAZI

GERMANY

By J. E. WILLIAMS

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POETS KNOW NOTHING

(Contributed).

N the top of a green hill that one down, and

ate defiance of demands that he Zeitung Is, in our opinion, onded." papers very badly. The success-took a book from my pocket,

halt the New Deal. He has made

it clear not only that ho is not. This excerpt, from the obituary fut radio propaganda and the and began to read....

Whene'er I take my walks stopping but that in going on, he notice of the great Gorman nowe-radio news reporting thrice daily is moving if anything to the Left.papor, speaks volumes concerning have also probably helped to the abroad I always slip a book into He refuses to restore confidenco" the change which has come oversame end. Or, again, so much of my pocket. For company. Or cultural Germany during the Inst the men's time has, in recent maybe to sit on if the grass bo 18 months. After 230 years' ser- months, been taken up in storm-damp.

..

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

An anthology is rather like a box of mixed choco-

by assuring business that it will bo "left alone." The attitudo is politically significant in view of the forthcoming elections. It is plain notice that his programme comes before Party ties, that the break with conservatism is clean

lates or a bottle of dilte pickles. More than that, it expresses the

You open it, stick in your fork at firm conviction that progressive sentirent is strong enough to en-ed as a small "Diary" in the form plain everything. The reading warty, gherkin. There is some But these conditions do not ex- random, and out comes a sonnet, or a chocolate almond, or w ́nice of a half sheet quarto size, it publle upon which a newspaper thing in it to suit every mood.! Bought to report events in the dopends, in Germany as Holy Roman Empire." Lator, it

ablo him to carry through the rest of his plans,

of German journalism, has been forced to cease publication. Start-

more

clac-

So I sate me down and began to DANGEROUS ASSUMPTION ?

And ten minutes Inter I became the Berlinfache Privile-whore, la composed not so much rend... President Roosevelt thinks of gierte Zoltung, appearing three of casual purchasers as upon that rose in my wrath and said to water his Administration still sa

huffalo who happened to bo near, the times. weekly. In

recent very solid and permanent audience "What liars these posts are!" To "humble Instrument" of "the great

to which it has been accustomed which the beast made no answer, the organ of the going on Hom furlough for dellway to national movement that culml-times it was London and use at Home and subsequent nated in 1932," There is some educated liberal Berliner. The to speak year in and year out. but went on stuffing grass into her and Hongkong tabore danger in the assumption. The high standard set by the Lessings This is a public-which grows to manyplies or third stomach,

Roosevelt a mandate for change. who took it over on Jan. 1, 1914. people undoubtedly gave Mr. was continued by Messrs. Ullstein, trust it, its writors and their judg But it is not so certain that they are altogether satisfied, either with the changes so far wrought Similarly, the Frankfurter Zei- destroyed in Germany.

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or with those outlined for, the future,

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•

-

reputation. The

press.

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

*

*

Take Mr. Shakespearo and his bauk. You know the thing. All about wild thyme and dandelions and modest violeta. 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 whore the earwig

creeps,

ment in most essentials. It is just this "cultural community" of paper and reader which has been

The President's owning, while it still appears in its

This "cultural community" has aplendid confidence which helped familiar typographical form, has been destroyed because the public so much in 1933 will not serve so completely passed out of the con- has lost confidence in its bourgeois well to-day. The country is les trol of the owners who bulit its frightened and more critical. He is right in denying that confidence depends on giving free rein to exploiters and in saying that those who would measure confidence must "look to the average man." Yet all who want freer business are not exploitara, and to-day the Average man has questions about the New Deal that he did not have a year ago. Ho knows that some The Colony's Budget is due to portions of it have been conflicting Sonnemann family, but in that changes in public feelings, has the lark at heaven's gate. Not a

in purpose. He has begun to see that a tremendous expansion of year financial reasons led to the more than once expressed ils die-single mention of September bugs. federal services is a hazardous transfer of something more than satisfaction with the present Ger- or centipedes. And you know business when reforms must be one-third of its stock. The con-man press, declaring himself in jelly well that the place administered by a persoanel un trol remained the same, however, ¡ favour of constructive criticism, simply crawling with them. Now dermined by the "spells system." until possession and management Bat the German journalist has not had he thought to ask me about

TUESDAY, SEPT, 11, 1934.

BUDGET OUTLOOK

be introduced in the Legislative Council this week. It is not to be expected that it will contain many surprises, Government policy is still one of

since

the

CLARIFICATION NEEDED

CINEMA CAMPAIGN

The conformity of the paper has been "aryanized," and press to National. Socialist ideas, which was consummated in the brought into complete conformity with the new.conditions which state officials with better material press law, turned journaliste Into exist under the National Sociallat conditions, but deprived them control of the press. Founded of freedom of expression as it is seventy-eight years ngo, the Frankfurter, until 1931, was the Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of

understood in Anglo-Saxon landa. į absolute property of the Simon- Propaganda, quick to

realize

within recent months, passed to a

yot ventured to decide what is group headed by a former Presi"constructive" criticism in the dent of the German state of Baden, terms of the new law, which so

and Socialist press, the figure is and other motives they may do tremendous. The increased cir-much, but their heart is not in culation which has accrued to tho it. National Socialist press, since that) by no means compensated for party became the Government, has

these losses...

And busy ante pile up their crowded heaps; .

Where slugs do crawl and leather-

jackets lie...

Where lithe and hatry, daddy-

long-legs fly.

And look at all that stuff about

Was

Hark, hark the lark at heaven's

gate sings,"

And see the loathsome flics; The noisome gnat, the wasp that

stings,

And makes the bumps to rise, And makes the bumps to rise, And blinking little bugs begin To bilo my nose and eyes,' And make me itch and smart like

Bin,

My lady, sicest, arise.

*

And, if one sang that to her,

deed, and hare down the road,"

marked caution. This is to some extent understandable, for the Colony is still under a

It has to be confessed, too, that cloud of depression, but, at the Americans are confused by the same time, there will be by the Government. And many Voss,

multiplicity of projects launched The fate that has overtaken the circumscribes his.activities that

the general hope that the

Frankfurter and his work is simply colourless. In pro-who have the utmost sympathy gramme for the coming year will with the ideals of honest business many provincial newspapers threa fact, he has been told that not not be unduly curtailed for ren- and social justice, and even with tens to overwhelm a number of criticism but interpretation is his sons of economy. In times like some specifle measures under the other bourgeois publications, to task-interpretation of what the the present, there is a danger in New Deal, are profoundly, dis-judge from the reports of their Government tells him.. the over-emphasis of economy, al trends which they believe they show that sales have dropped on trustful of some of the fundament- dwindling. circulations. These

This is quite in keeping with the in which connection the Govern-perceive in the Administration's ormously; that, for example, in

National Socialist principle of ment, policy of maintaining a course. The President would fluid credit balance of ten million advance his high purpose better such eitles as Berlin and Ham- leadership-leadership from above, Į dollars or more is open to some by clarifying the New Deal's pro-burg, the bourgeois press hus lost obedience from below. But it is would she arise? She would In- degree of criticism. Presum-gramme and purifying its admin- hundreds of thousands of renders. well-nigh impossible for journ-shaking the spiders out of her ably the idea is that it is prudentistration than by relteration of his in Berlin alone, the number ja allata accustomed to write quite lingerie and yelling blue murder. to make provision for a rainy Then he could well afford to ignore When to this is added the complete or imagination into their interpro have seen a garden, and most of bellef that the people, are for it. estimated at more than 600,000. differently for decades to put firo Some of these poets could never day, but actually the rainy day, the conservatives and their pre-disappearance of the Communiat tative messages. For economic their stuff reads 06 if it were if not indeed the deluge, appears paganda." already to have arrived, and

written in & West Point cabaret for from the madding mosquito. there seems little reason to fear that the situation will becoma appreciably worse than it now 16. In any event, there scarcely seems any justification for main taining an idle balance of ap- proximately third of the Colony's yearly revenue whilst there are pressing public works which might be expedited. In deed, the Government itself, by a policy of wise spending at this juncture, could help towards dis- pelling some of the business depression still being felt. The finances of the Colony, to judge from the half-yearly statement just issued, are thoroughly sound. Revenue is, it is true, somewhat down on the corres- ponding six months of last year, but it still considerably exceeds foutgoings. The higher rate of exchange has naturally been a factor in keeping expenditure play. And for two centuries down, but there seems little ren subsequently the English theatro 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 bo- year; the tendency may, in fact, churches and by everything for be in the other direction, in which the churches stood. which event the effect on the

against undesirable films in the The campaign by the churches United States has 'now spread to Great Britain. It is important that their attitudo should not be merely a negative one, calculated to antagoniso rather than improve able that the cinema ahould repeat the cinema. It is far from desir the history of the relations of the theatre and organised religion. Even during the greatest ago of the English drama, the Eliza bethan, the theatre failed to ful- cause of the hostility that existed flits highest mission partly be between it and the religious de- nominations of its time, Later, the shutting of the theatres by the Couch's opinion, was the chiof Puritans, In Professor Quiller

might have given to the drama a reason why John Milton, who note of sublimity that it has gen- orally lacked, abandoned the idea of composing "Paradise Lost' as

Colony's sterling commitments CONSTRUCTIVENESS should be beneficial. There are,

The revival of the Engilsh

of course, many public works of theatre during the last thirty considerablo magnitude ahead, years has coincided with the more Including the Government House sympathetic attention it has re and City Development Scheme,ceived from religious organien- but this undertaking will eventlone. Such attention should bo tually finance itself, and, as it given to the cinema; and it need will be spread over a number of not in any way be less than critical and constructive. It is odd that, 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 filme, 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 joct; further delay seoma un methods for getting rid of unde

onos. Yet the surest of all Justified Taking the situation sirable Alma is by encouraging the in the large, we know of no success of those that are desirable, cause why the Government

should not come out with a Bud

got characterised rather by bold-measure of the Government's ness of approach to the problems confidence in the future will be ahead, rather than by timorous judged by the spirit in which the ness about the future. The Budget is framed

The German people are also rapidly losing vital interest in their press, because they feel they are receiving only the scantiest In other words, the German information pubile are fast ceasing to be vitally

un matters which concern them selves. many of the better educated now the National Socialist revolution, readers of their own press. While "Every newspaper, as a result of read more Swiss, English and has been set a task which cannot French newspapers, the majority be settled overnight," one promin- of the population seems to have ent German journalist recently simply abandoned newspaper read- declared. At the moment it is in

altogether, Explanations the midst of this task.

ing

the world, If it

But this wilful suppression of the facts must be put right, Browning, for instance, with his Could "Oh, to be in England." .. he but see my poor little Maman Cochet fighting for her life against drought and pest and disease, he might alter his tune.

"Oh, to be in England,

Now that June is there, And whoever lives in England. Finds his choicest roses bars;

the cuckoo-spit And the leaves all showed where

And the caterpillar have dona

・their bit,.

While the lawnmower makes

ghaatly row

In England, now!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES;

By Juliet Lowell Mr. Reed's Not Well-read. The Nowa Dear Editor:

I read in this morning's paper that Mr. Reed had just broken his leg. To my amazement, I saw him walking down the atfoot. It fa quite evident that he doesn't read your paper.

A Subscriber.

(signed).

8-17

I saw him walking down the strent.

Dear Mry,

erton

For curing your husband until he died

Youră truly) MAZON--Dr, Ohirler A