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Now Mayfair Orchestra play
Evergreen-Selection
Twenty Million Sweethearts-Selection Budapost String Quartet play
Quartet Satz in C Minor (Schubert)
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I'll string along with you
What are your intentions
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9,
1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY CORPORATION
ANOTHER LOCK-OUT-
cannot mean a
to.
CONTROL The Very Idea!
IN ITALY
By SIGNOR PAUL CREMONA
trades;
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BOGGE NY PETHA
FILM-FANS, I see, have
been invited
to
re-
The United States will apparent- ly. Ince another major strike
Marine Workers' morrow. The
Three employers nnd three name a star. A fascinating Industrial Union has voted almost unanimously for a militant strike.TALY'S projected economic sys-
tem of state corporations Is workers representing the cotton exercise. demanding a basic wage of U.S.$75 per month for an eight-hour day, about to go into effect.
A total of 22 corporations are One employer and one worker Quite a number of our better- an increase in steamship crews of
the included in the plan, divided into for the sheep-breeding and wool-known performers are getting
themselves rechristened. twenty-three per cent. and right to join any union members three main groups, agriculture, in-growing industry;
Two employers and two workers wish. On the face of it, the de-dustry and commerce.
The corporative system will be for the woullen and worsted indus mand seems fair enough. Just what the basic wage implies is not administered by the Minister of res
who is Premier made clear by despatches, it will Benito Mussolini.
but it Corporations,
One employer and one workor a "minimum"
cach for the silk-breeding, silk- bo Tho vico-president with probably apply to able seamen and fremen. As for the increase in selected from the ranks of the cocoon raising, silk-reeling and
ing and rayon weaving: crews, it is far from likely that the Fascist party, and three members throwing, silk-weaving, rayon mak- Two employers and two workers aporators will give in on that point, of that party will hold pinces on but possibly a compromise may the board of each corporation. be reached. At the moment the representing the pubile interests. for the linen and hemp industry: Ileads of government depart- One employer and one worker lock-out applies only to the Atlantie and Gulf steamers, but there is a ments concerned in matters pre-for the jute industry; and so on. distinct possibility that the strike nented to the corporations are
Lots of similar changes are on the entitled to participate in board may spread.
At the basis of the system, the tapis. I've only space to mention meetings, whose agenda will be submitted to the ministers, thus, syndical organisation of employers one or two. "Herbie" Samuel, the Insuring close contact between and employed, created by the Act star of Crossing the Floor, is to re- the corporations and the public of April 8, 1925, remains intact. appear as "Steadfast Prim," Jimmy administrations.
It. regulates relations between Thomas ("Let'e be "App!") -08 "Strut Noodles, and Leslie Hore- Bellaha (Whitehall Express) in the curious guise of "Muffled Hoots."
TIME OF FORECASTS'
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While the seamen are preparing
The presence of experts on the capital and labour and affords the to walk ashore, the political lobbies are watching the course of that specific matters dealt with at the basis for the vocational representa respective ships now coming into several meetings can be secured tion of employers and employed, the stormy waters of electioneering, by the president, and the study of now brought together in the cor Next month will see the issue de purely technical matters may be porations.
Tha etded: whether or not the United referred to the National Research
General Confederations, States people are prepared to under-Council and similar bodies. now reduced from 13 to 9 by the suppression of the twin confederu write the Roosevelt policy and.
tlona for internal communications support the N.R.A. Unquestionably there is a certain amount of back-
The president can also invite and air transports, which amal- sliding, as in California where Mr. perkons designated by the qualified gamate with the twin confedera associations Sinclair has built himself a strong syndical
and the tions of Industrial employers and hold of neo-Democracy, flanked by other bodies represented on a cor- industrial workers, will continue promises of weird socialistic re- forms.
Tako, for examples, little "Rammie" MacDonald, who starred in Ship of State. He's changing his name. He propoace, I believe, to be known as "Halcyon Dithor." Then there's wee Johnny Simion, the "young innocent". of Peace, Perfect Peace. In future (they tell me) his name will be "Flutewell Unction." "Uncommon,", don't you common child. think?-but then Johnny's an un-
Well, well; I suppose-like the well-known roses--they'll all of 'om smell just as sweet.
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Or not, as the case may be.
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BOGGE NY PETHA.
I see an attempt is to be made to
("Bogge ny" But generally speaking the portion to attend meetings for to co-ordinate the activition of the revive the old Cornish tongue. Democrats seem to be in the ascen-the study of specific questions or several syndical associations (pro- Good luck to it
to secure fuller representation of vincial unions and national federa- Petha"). Cornish is another of to their these funny Celtic dialects, of dancy stili Recent primary re- certain interests involved. The tlons) which head up
поч going turns have certainly indicated that presidents of the General Con- respective confederations, and to which several are President Roosevelt is what is federations are also entitled to supervise and direct the financial strong-Irish, Welsh, some sort of
Hongkong Telegraph. some pumpkin." whole and believe) Manx. ny
TUESDAY, Oct. 9, 1934,
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well,
pilchard
pasty smuggler
artlet
consider activities coming within tem.
The immediate value and possi- the scope of their respective or
The more the merrier, say .. bilities of this new organisation of ganisations.. Mr. Rodney. Dutcher, the Wash- in setting up the several cor- production and services can hardly it all makes for culture and what- Ington commentator, says all the porations an effort has been made be exaggerated. It confers a not and does nobody any harm.
When I was NAVAL RIVALRIES
a boy I talked Renuine New Dealers and young to include in each all the branches large measure of self-governing Washington hints that the liberals, which include most of the of the cycle of production with powers on the productive activities Cornish quite a lot, at Trepenpol. promise of Franco-Italian accord brain trust people, are delighted which it is to deal, thus bringing of the country and assures the Trepenpol is but a few miles from with what they consider indications together the producers and con active participation of the pro- Mousehole, where old Delly Pen- Here are some may have important consequen-of a general and consistent swing gumers of a given product, as, for ducors themselves in the planning treath lived. cos on Britain's attitude at the to the left. There will be more instance, in the paper and publish- and regulation of Italian economic characteristic words and phrases.
of life, and this in a transition period so far as I remember them. Naval Conference to be held New Deal rather than less, they being corporation, producers
taisti next year must, at the moment, lieve. They point with pride to paper and publishers; brick and when theories, methods, and poli-
lotta do be
reserve. The President Roosevelt's endorsation cement makers and builders in the cles are undergoing drastic. re- taken with
wiski mann suggestion is that if Italy and of the La Follette principles, his building trade corporation; pro- vision and when new adjustments with Mr. ducers of textile fibres and spin-are being made which will pro-
#leceha apparent friendliness France come to an agreement.in Upton Sinclair, a generous treatners and weavers In the textile foundly affect the future of the
country for a long time to come. respect of the naval situation in ment of labour, the departure of corporation, etc.
Throughout the system, and at the Mediterranean, Britain may General Johnson, and the growing
every stage of the work, the refrain from further building antagonism of big business" to
These are The need of harmonizing these national interest is safeguarded and align herself with the the administration.
proofs positive that the Roosevelt-contrasting interests will avold against undue pressure of special Cornish occasionally when the United States in seeking to Democrats are something that they the danger that the corporations interests through the presence on "Dughy" in educated up to it. maintain the present ratios, in-
"didn't used to be," as Mr. Dutcher might become monopolistic organs the corporations of officials repre- stead of with Japan, who is said puts it. So that a Democrat vie for the protection of special inter-senting the Government and mem- to favour additional construction. tory in the next election will not eats, and a dynamic character is bers of the Fascist Party. The reports to this effect are at necessarily please the stiff-backed thus conferred on the whole sys- present described as purely un-old party men, official, and may have been given currency rather to test Japan's reactions than anything else. Grounds for doubt arise under
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DUMB.BELLES LETTERS By Juliet Lowcoll
by
com-
tem whose purpose is to promote
Particularism is avoided production along the lines most consonant with national interests, requiring that the decisions by the The comprehensive character of corporations be ratified by the Whatever may be the trend at the several corporations is clearly, General Assembly of the National Washington, France has swung to shown by the membership of their Council of Corporations, on which several headings. In the first the Right, if the returns from the respective boards, on which equal all branches of economic activity place, there is not as yet any Provincial Council elections are representation and equal rights are represented, and the suprem- definite suggestion that the any indication of the feeling of the are assured to employers and em-acy of the state is insured by the fact that the decisions only take Franco-Italian accord will cover nation's electors. It is generally ployed.
As their composition is a matter effect when embodied in a deeree naval matters, although it is believed that the rightist-trend presumed that any comprehen- significs satisfaction in Premier of much interest to all students of issued by the Chief of the Govern sive rapprochement between the economies were earlier looked production, there follows, as ex-
Doumorgue's plan of campaign. the corporative organisation of mont,
Subject to the safeguards above two countries would moat likely
upon with some misgiving by cer- emplifying the principles involved, mentioned, the National Council aim at an understanding on this tain sections of the country and the the composition of the board of the of Corporations will exercise, within the sphere in which it 18 issue. M. Barthou's intended intimation that he would borrow Textile Corporation,
It should be remembered that qualified to act, what are virtually visit to Rome in the near future from the British Constitution to will most likely throw light on effect certain French reforms called under the Corporation Law enact legislative powers, without which this point. When we come to up a cry of protest from more con-ed in February of this year, this the corporations' control of econ-
servative persons. There
were corporation like all the others can omic activities could not be effec- consider the possible effects of those who wanted even more radical either meet as a whole or by acc- tive.
The agricultural section such an agreement on the 1936 changes than M. Doumerguo pro- tions as the questions to be dealt Naval Conference, however, the posed to give them, and they were with may demand. The member prises the following nine corpora-
(Continued, on Page 5). issue becomes more involved. crying too. And then there was ship follows: In the first place, there are that group which is always "agin conflicting versions regarding the people's representatives try to the government", no matter how Japan's probable attitude. On do their duty. Now, it looks as the one hand, there is the ques- though France has had enough of tion of the Japanese insistence riotous reforming for the present on parity as between Britain and and would follow M. Doumergue France; on the other, n new wherever he has a mind to lead.. suggestion that Japan, so far from seeking naval expansion, | TERRITORIAL PARADOX will bring forward a plan based. Jon reduction of offensive arma- It is an odd development that in ments. As we have previously the Philippines, soon to be in- hinted, it is possible to reconcile dependent, English has been adopt- ed us the official language, while in these two attitudes on a basis of the solidly American territory of Japan putting forward a demand | Puerto Rico, Spanish has taken the that Britain and America come place of English as the accepted down to her level, but such a medium of instruction in elemen- solution of the problem is scarce tary schools. The Puerto Ricans ly likely to be endorsed. It is speak Spanish from the cradle up- ward. Efforts have been made to not easy to interpret the recent conduct the elementary schools statement by Rear Admiral bilingually, with English and Yamamoto, delegate to the pre-Spanish used aide by alde. Now, paratory conference in London, however, the instruction is to be to the effect that nations should solely in Spanish, with instruction be permitted sufficient. naval in English reserved for high schools. But in the Philippines, Is the only language
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atrength to guarantee their nahoroughly diffused throughout the
tional security, but not to con- stitute a menace to others. But islands. Spanish is the language whatever is precisely meant by of polite society: English is the this declaration, it is obvious language in which business is con- that a difficulty immediately ducted. The Filipinos themselves arises on the point as to who is official tongue, So the American have voted to make English the to determine when a Navy comes territory will speak Spanish, and within the first or the second of the independent Philippines will these categories. Looking at continue-to-talk-American"!-- the situation generally, it is
TD.clearly too early in the day to
speculate, with any degree, of guiding points may, however, certainty or even probability, on emerge from the preliminary the attitudes of the participants discussions which are soon to lin next year's Conference. Some take place in London.
"Too busy this morning, Mr. Parks. Might aqueczo in ma
game this afternoon."
In opening the pail,
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I ruined the wooden lid.
A Fish Story.
Phadelphia, Pa.. February, 26, 1930.
Frunk E. Davis Fish Co., Gloucester,
Massachusetta.
Gentlemen:
You recently sent me a pail of salt mackerel.
In opening the pall-(my first offence) I ruined the wooden d please send me to above address a wooden lid to fit this pail.
My Kentucky wife thinks fish Is. something you buy to fertilize the ground-30-this lot of flat are now in quarantine antil the lid comes. Why not put a paster on the kit telling how to open in a. small apartment?
Yours truly,
Donald Kn
(signed).
KIND THOUGHTS.
In summer time at Fanling
The rose is gemmed with dow.. And all the little greenfly
Its tender leaves do chew,
The dirty dogs, they do.
In summer time they're breeding
Ten millions every day; And when their aunts and sincles
And cousins come to stay, With soap-suds let us spray, The only garden pest to whom the poets have given any publicity at all is the butterfly, and that, of couraó, has merely encouraged the blackguard to further efforts. ---
Behind his fairy-like and fragile form the butterfly is a loathsome brate who lays eggs on, cabbages, whence come noxious caterpillars who make said cabbages as full of holes as a lace curtain,
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