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AMERICA'S RELIEF

PROBLEM

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY

PICK YOUR LEADER

With the near approach of a General Election campaign in Bel- tain, political partics are casting about for a selection of the best

QUEER THINGS ON GOLF LINKS

FROM A CORRESPONDENT

minutes.

The Very Idea!

YOUR MOVE" NOW

By: George

write a moving story

"Limber" available in case they are IT is not of shots "far and sure" reptile was safely. "quartered" IAST night we set out to called upon to form a Cabinet. that I would write, nor of the was told it was one of the deadliest Undeniably there are three potential languazo" occasionally used, but snakes in India, the poison from for this column. A atory Governments in process of selection of many other things that Intercat- which kills within five min at the moment; and though the ed me when I enjoyed my golf on One of the funniest experiences that would wring your the beautiful course of the Royal had was when I saw crossing the bowels with pity or, more campaign may change the plexion of things it would appear Calcutta Golf Club, with its fine fairway one day an animal which that any one of threo

groups of

bamboos and various trees políticos had fairly oven-chances of vistas between the plantations of

luxuriant growth.

Is

LLOYD. GEORGE FIRST

Own Answer

com-

of

I took to be a crocodile. It was decently, move you to buy a

爨

*

The fact is that we have moved our dwelling-un event as momentous in the life of the bachelor as it is to police, shroffs and other readers of this column. We will not describe in harrow-

orror.

by a general movement all over the Perhaps three times the size. It is tocal residents as it was damaging

+

HIGH HOPES FOR FAIR

green-

BRITISH INDUSTRIES' GREAT DISPLAY

London.

hold goods.

The contractors we found up- stairs cementing a new found friendship over a Bttle peg of whisky (not so new found Judg ing by the look of the boltle).

They explained, in fluent and apologetic Cantonese that they did not like the place or the furniture and after a glance at the latter. dripping abjectly in various post- tions over the landing, we were in- clined to agree with them.

We put out the contractors from our doors and took up the bottle

been.

have

six or soven feet long, and I con-paper. fesa

I felt some little alarm. It The Govern securing a majority.

was an iguana, and quite harmless. ment will be Labour, Nationalist or Conservative, and the chances, If My usual golfing companion was although I was not sorry when it there is any shade of difference, a man who, in his boyhood, had disappeared into a "tank," one of the those little ponda we have scattered probably favour these groups in the developed his eye-sight in order ng named. That is only, a search for animals of all kinds, in all over the golf course, guess. There are not many coin- the woods, the streams, and the binations of the three possible. trees. He was a notorious trapper

A young assistant, just out from ing detail the actual operation of One can say cente-meenic-minie-in his school days, trapping animals moe, and probably pick the winner that his schoolmaster, an adept at home, on seeing one of these ani-moving. Briefly we may say that niais, stood not upon the order of the contractors arrived a day late na accurately as by reasoning. It the game, had failed to conquer.

Great possible, even, that

It was during my games with his going, but dropped his club owing to their having "moved out" Britain may be asked to choose this companion that I discovered where he was, and shinned up the a quite inoffensive neighbour in another Emergency Cabinet, and that out East there is a lot more nearest tree!

Another bird of our acquaintance. When we hired another the first there are those who offer choices to be acen than the "pill away for these offices, with reason to down the fairway. My arst in more common and less modest than

thou-troduction to the fauna on the woodpecker and coppersmith, contractor arrived and the two

the hellove that among many sanda their selections would be course was one day when even my was the kite. This bird resembles zealous tradesmen engaged in a which was no entertaining to the unaccustomed vision was disturbed the common crow, but is two or tug-of-war outside the premises acceptablo.

first time I have had ball lifted by those thieves of the anything?

Why, these were little frogs!golf courses.

And now I shall close with my In this respect it is interesting

Finally we split. the contract to avoid similar treatment to the to note the opinion of Mr. David There were millions of them, and

we must have killed a dozen with friend the skeleton.

Part of the course was laid over plano and returned to the office Keir, well-known political corres-

He every footstep. It was n sight, Westminster. pondent at writes: "Imagine that Great Bri-although intereating, that I do not an old burying ground, through with the firm conviction that it was tain is facing a tremendous crisis, wish to see again. They covered which runs a road with its deep more difficult to "move out and in"

One day we than to see the country, little ditch on either side. of the ground, the whole Everywhere in the world curren-

were attracted by an unusual glint

Returning to the new flat at cles are crashing, International things less than nu fnch in size, or something white in the wall of and the appearance can hardly be trade is at a standstill, there in imagined of such countiess numbers the ditch, and an the weeks went about eight o'clock when a pleasant by nm the rains washed away i drizzle was emphasising the call of rioting in all the world's great citics. Only the people of Britain, hopping, hopping all over the place little more of the earth from the home and we were fondly imagining

balanced

wall, we discovered this to be the that the last chair would have bat- mainly because of a Budget in the previous year and With such luxuriant growth of skeleton of a full-sized human betered its way up three floors to its new and probably laat resting place, an instinctive faith in the stability the vegetation it was seldom that ing.

It was

annoying to find that a Always when passing the spot, we of their country; have remained we saw decay in the trees, but on reasonably calm. But even British one occasion we were remarking went and made aur salaams, until sofa, two beds and the intimate temper is beginning to break.ntrout the slow withering of the one day we found our friend the part of our wardrobe had found a home at some other address owing Prices are soaring. Brend queues leaves of a beautiful tree, when my skeleton had gone. The are growing as long as streets. friend said, "Do you see the brute keeper had had an early morning to differences of opinion as to where

We ought to live.. Docks are crowded with empty that is doing the damage?" With walkt. shipa. Unemployment assistance that he took a big Jack-knife from There is one useful thing is creeping beyond, the resources his pocket and started hacking which the depresston-born relief and capacity of the Unemployment away at a tremendous weed which big that the stem was Assistance Board. Stagnation is had grown problem is doing for the crawling over the face of industry. [over an inch in diameter, and the United States. It is acting Ordinary processes of government height of it was almost as high as are inadequate to deal with this the tree itself. It was slowly but શ microscope through crisis, unfortunately aggravated surely crushing out life.

The parasite was soon severed In at home by the mental bankruptcy which the people can get a new of a Government which for four several places, and on subsequent look at some of the phases of years has been composed of well-rounds we were delighted to see the

(Our Own Correspondent,) American life which they never meaning. but unimaginative, old tree gradually recover its beauty

worthies. Thore is a spontaneous, once again.

Talking of trees, we had the un- Both in the number of pros- bothered to examine very care-nation-wide call for an emergency fully before. There is much Cabinet armed with diletatorial usual experience one day of seeing pective exhibitors and in the total

afa woodpecker. This bird seldom area' their standa will occupy the where they had left off. Life too. to control the Bank talk about unemployment, about power

England, the Joint Stock Banks allows itself to be seen, keeping to next British Industries Fair pro- seemed very low, we reflected, re

na great, if not A the need to get people back to

a free when any mises to be and all vested Interest, to direct the far side of work, about the "American industry, tackla unemployment and human is about. Hearing the "tap, greater success, than the last one. Placing the bottle under the cork standard of living" which must reconstruct the life of the nation tap, tap," we stopped and remained The London and Birmingham sec-and sitting down where a chair had For the next few days business be preserved; and all the while, to suit the sudden changed condi- very still. We were rewarded by tions of the Fair, which

tlon of the world. Which of our seeing the bird hanging on to the hitherto been held simultaneously, tucked away in the relief statis-politicians would you choose? My bark of a tree and hammering with will be held on different dates this kept us from home whilst the boys ics, are figures which give a

to this fascinating its bill like a mad thing. This bird year. The sections at Olympia and made the place habitable. First problem is given after careful can leave a very nasty impression at the White City will be held from there was the piracy as a result of February 18 to March 3, and the which every luckless coolle found behind him, often digging great dismaying view of the way a

study of our leading politicians in hen all n the side of the tree, engineering and hardware section with an orange in his passession large percentage of the prople years of strain and stress. Un-

from May 20 to 41. The change We avoided home on the first have to live. Official figures hesitatingly I plump for Mr. Lloyd! This is not surprising when one at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham was suspected of complicity.

wishes of business men, associated at midnight; the police and agents of the Nation and Director-in- some 18,300,000 persons were Chief of Foreign Affairs. His in-

With the Birmingham section, who Insisted on us accompanying receiving relief. Slightly less tornational reputation, based on The coppersmith bird we never considered that February was too them to get the atory. We got the nchievement anct experience, saw but often heard at one seasonlearly in the year to attract the kids to look frightened through than two-thirds of these people stands high; he has an immense of the year. A most peculiar sound largest number of buyers from the the portholes but the schoolmaster were city folk; the rest were following in the country; his it matte, a clanking sound, from Dominions, Colonies, and South put his foot in it by telling three from the farms or the small mentality in admirably adapted to which it takes the name we know American countries, who usually different stories,

begin to arrive about May. towns. An analysis of the grappling with emergencies; like it by.

However, perhaps he had been a The official figures of applications I had a thrilling experience anr Mr. Roosevelt he understands the figures reveals the fact that most New Age, and his mind misses no tiny when my friend, very excited, to date show that the numbers of reporter until, like others of the

the people on relief are modern development.

snid, "Caddy. my niblick, quick!" intending exhibitors in London are clan, he turned over a new leaf. and there, quieldy wriggling Ita already almost as large as last We caught rather a bad cold as precisely those people who, when

way across our path was a little year, and the same applies ton result of that night's work and employed, receive incomes so low Ì HICH PRAISE

snake, 12 or 14 inches in length. firmingham, but the area of stand are still incomprehensible except that they cannot build up a nest Resilience, valour on the poll It was a beautiful creature, with accommodation allotted there, is in the written word. When we did away a shiny black skin covered all over much greater, owing to firms taking attempt to give a wedding report egg for hard times. For in- tien! battlefield, power to

When the advantage of the larger outdoor over the phone we read it in the stance: Unskilled

and semi-great audiences and dominate with bright red spots.

take niblick had done its work and the lures available this year. skilled urban labourers make up risks and listen to the views of

Parliament, willingness to jonly 41 per cent. of the general lesser men-these qualities fit him urban population; but they com- more than any other living states- pose 68 per cent. of the urban mun for the "storm" leadership of Britain's 46,000,000 inhabitants, relief group.

Skilled workers, Then I should choose Mr. Winston composing 17 per cent, of the Churchill-as Leader of the House population, make up 19 per cent: of Commons and Minister in Charge of the Defence Services. of the relief group. On the Like L.G., Mr. Churchill has a also other hand, proprietary, profes- world reputation. He has sional, and clerical workers, com-great gifts of demagogy-a neces- posing about 41 per cent. of the faced with the task of reassuring sery equipment for stateamen urban population, contribute only uneasy public opinion, Few 18 per cent, of the relief group. statesmen are as versatile, as bril- It is the same way with rural fiant, and as daring. In un emer- gency he would help his colleaguça workers. The share-croppers, to reach quick declalons and be the tenant farmers, the men who untiring in his efforts to make his have been struggling with mar- and their work successful. Mr. Herbert Morrison I should. make ginal or sub-marginal land, never Chancellor of the Exchequer, Na- prosperous even in good times-tional Comptroller of Banks, and these are the men, who make up Walter Elliott should be Minister Minister for Development Mr. the bulk of the relief group in of Industry and Sir Herbert the rural regions. In city and Samuel Minister of Communica- country alike, these people are tons. This would be my Cabinet

for any crisis." the ones who never, even in boom times, touch the famous "American standard of living", people there are. Year after They live in those homes at year the nation has had to carry this load of poverty. In hard which slum clearance plans are times it makes the relief list aimed. They never got, ade- almost unendurably expensive; quate medical attention, diet, or in good times it limits markets clothing; they never can build and creates. social problems up bank accounts big enough to which are born of poverty. The carry them very long when nation obviously cannot be com- trouble comes. Studying the placent about any "recovery" that does not permanently raise. rollef figures makes it possible the status of these people in the to realise how many of these lowest incomo brackets.

show that in September, 1934. George as Prime Minister, Lender ban-seen the great-power...il gets was made in deference to the night by sailing about Junk Bay

of

.

behind those hammer blows,

"Oh, yeah?.

་

foolin'1

Wouldn't kid me, wouldja?.

Where didja get that, lina?"

next day's paper as ".. the bride's gift to the bridegroom was a beau- tiful dressing-down."

We must close now na writing mekes our throat sore.

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