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NOTES OF THE DAY

THE ARTIST'S VISION

be

30, 1935.

ENGLAND LOOKS AT

U.S. NEW DEAL

By WINSTON CHURCHILL

How fares the United States | At first sight the popularity of under the bold schemes of Pre- the President and the power of the sident Roosevelt? This is u quea- | Federa) Administration would tion which we In this island ask

seem overwhelming. The Demo-

most

The Very Idea!

DUMB BELLES LETTRES

Compiled by Jullet Lowell PUT ON YOUR BRAKES Liberty Magazínó. Gentlemen:

1 have received your letter asking why I cancelled my subs criptlon. The reason is because I am stepping out with Allco and can keep a guy that girl sure

(signed) Roger B-

That girl sure can keep a

muy buen.

.

At Its banquet recently the Royal Academy discovered a critic of modern art in the Foreign Secretary, says the London Daily Telegraph. Sir John Simon may not have pressed his thrusts deep, but he had the daring to challenge some of the tendencies of the newer painters and to speculate, as others ourselves from time to time with a have done, whether If every artist curiosity born both of sympathy cratic party machine with its solid Our economic life core of ex-Confederate States makes paints what he sees there is not and interest.

Instances something as a world-wide trading com- its broad appeal to the proletarian In

certain amiss with eyesight. That is not munity is profoundly affected by masses to rise against wealth and

busy. the fortunes of the other great corruption, and to bronk into a a surprising question from one

English-speaking new world. The Republican Party who adopts the saying of Leonardo branch of the that "the most praiseworthy paint-peoples. Their prosperity is our lica prostrate in the dust of 1932. refreshment. Their joys feed our "The New Deal," "Fair play for ing is that which has most con- formity to the thing represented" hopes. The Roosevelt campaign for the Common People," "Clean up International a doctrine that successive schools the "Now Deal" to set Uncle Sam's and clean out the of the moderns have defied in the house in order; the audacious on- financiers"-and at the summit of belief that great art must always slaught upon the accepted canons all the inspiring personality of the of the monetary system; the note President, seem to present an irre be something more than representa-

of compassion for the weak and sistible combination. But, on the tional. In discussing the value of art in international relations, Sir por: coupled as these plans are other hand, He the misgivings of John evinced a desire to have per- with the freeing of a mighty na-dunched hopes, the vexations of tion from the disease of Prohibi-State Interference with business, manent collections of British paint- It

tion-all constitute a movement of the Inevitable administrative ings in our embassies abroad.

action which not breakdowns, and the consequen- is a fascinating suggestion, but if thought and of

but stiratin charges of graft and favour- the pictures are to be those of our only compels attention own day, diplomatists will discover enthusiasms in the Old Country.itism. The attempt in a score that they have been thrust into a The daring, generous experiment of months to build up in the total- to be ly different conditions of the world in which differences of view

seems at the moment not

results. United States something like the may be as embittered as in the yielding the longed-for Prices HK$50 to $180.sphere with which they are more Nearly two thousand millions ster-British trade union and industrial familiar. The Duke of York chose Ing have been poured out to prime system-the products of a century Full Particulars

safer ground in claiming that art the pump of prosperity; hut pro- of evolution-was bound to con- should be given a fuller place insperity has not began to flow. The front the American people, espe- our daily life and should device of unbalancing the Budget cially their strongest and utilised in rescuing our big cities on a gigantic scale, so often urged activa elements, with innumerable from ugliness and saving the coun-by British inftationists, is in full personal experiences of a sense- tryside from defneement. These swing in the United States. The less and irritating character.

SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE are directions in which public strong regulation of industry by

The Republican Party, "the Miss Lee Wiley opinion is new, moving strongly, as the State has been backed not

of the Grand Old Party," outside the Station WEAF plain from the revolt against only with the authority ribbon development and the greater Government but by the ardour of South has its roots, not only in New York City.

every State but in every street. regard for

in the new

from the Atlantic to the Pacific. architecture of our cities. Past

Rigorous social discipline and It has as yet no leader. Strange blunders are not to be quickly re- patred where building is concerned, loyalties have reinforced the ma- forces and figures are afoot who Till the air with raucous eries and in the search for something chinery of voluminous better mistakes will not be avoided, Wages, prices, and labour condi- either hostile or indifferent to the Yet the recent exhibition of design tions have been grasped in mus President's Administration. in manufacture ul the Royalcular hands and nailed to an ar Academy showed how, in an age of bitrary framework. Agricultural

production has not merely been re- Senator Huey Long, the boss of machine production, beauty still be given its place. It would strained; it has been amputated. Louisiana, is already in the field Wide rens have been deliberate with his "Share the wealth" cam- CRISIS

be 'cause of permanent regret if

Demneratie with the fever for change run-ly surrendered to the desert sand.paign, splitting the The Roosevelt Administrationing high there were repeated that Glut has been assaulted with vio- vote and helping, however unwil has experienced a nasty set-back forgetfulness of the sweeter things lence. An amazing non-heg in Bingly, the Republican side. Hie by the decision of the Supreme of life that in an earlier industrial dustry has been reared upon lavish has uttered two slogans against Swift Canadian Co.

subsidies.

the President's policy which have

Regina, Sask. Court declaring the N.R.A. age blighted so much loveliness.

Dear Sir: Codes to be unconstitutional and

Inaulted Nature has ironically run like wildfire through the Unit- ed States. The whole vast process therefore null and void. The POETRY UNAWARES

Would please you find here- co-operated by providing excep of the National Recovery Act and ruling comes, strangely enough.

tional droughts, and the frontiers the relief of famine and destitu- with my cheque in amount of New ($13.75) for it pay our count debt. shortly after a Senate vote which

of cultivable and habitable landtion which constitate the favoured extending the N.R.A.

have sensibly reeeded. Public Deal, has been smirched by his would say it is why so long delay for a further period of ten

Te then to Liquidate was cause the credit and currency manipulation cruel phrase, Scab wages." months, instead of the two years

have been applied to mitigate the has stigmatised the resulta of the business in lately too slowly we are asked by President Roosevelt. It is of interest also to note that the Senate, by its resolution on the subject, favoured the elimi- nation of price-fixing except in mineral and natural resource in- dustries, and also the exemption of inter-State business from the structure of the fair competition Codes. On this latter point, it should be explained that the Roosevelt Administration had

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1936.

ROOSEVELT FACES

muss

Can

the nation.

codes.

Under separate cover I am sending you 200 songs which my pupils have written. Please write "gung dramas" of them and return by express. Also please send me your written promise to sing every one of them on future programmes so I can collect from the authors. Mrs. Stanley-

(signed)

YOU SAID IT!

Life is full of pleasant surprises. Consider poetry, for example, about which a most cheering discovery has just been made. Poetry is generally considered to be a pretty

process on the one hand or stimu- good thing in its way, but is usually

Inte it upon the other. A debt immense, noble-minded, but not feeling is much obliged you is ex-. necessary well-directed recon- ceedingly trust toward us we hope thought to be very difficult to write,

has been piled up in time of pence struction polley of the White future You and Me the business. Poets themselves have rather en-

which rivals the debts contracted couraged this idea. The great

These sion."

war-cries of bate Virgil used to write only ten lines by nations fighting for dear life House as "The Roosevelt Depres- more be better coming. a day, and there was a famous in modern war.

and prejudice become formidable English poet who declared that he

Up till a few years ago no peo-when backed from quite a different had done a hard day's work, hay-ple were more self-reliant and in- angle by the cold logic of facts in and figures assembled by wealth ing in the morning put in a comma dividualist than the dwellers

while even

sober, erudite

and

and

wrote this

tion for the coming contest.

Geneva

Yours truly. Carson W-

(signed)

*

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Now that the nations are exchanging pork and fruit for whisky and wine, perhaps it will not be so hard to get them around a table.

Louis F

(signed)

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HOW ABOUT THE INTEREST?

in his new poem, and in the after-the United States. Now-not in and learning, and confirmed by

AND THEN WHAT? noon having taken it out again. the frugal days of thrifty repay-the personal experience of tens of But, although poetry writing mayment or in our aftermath of re-millions of American citizens. For

course Secretariat General present difficulties, ardent literary pudiation, but at the height-peak President Roosevelt the researchers in England have just boom of borrowed expenditure-a seems simple. He should prove League of Nations some weeks earlier consented to

discovered that these difficulties are

very large part of the whole popu- himself the chief and, if neces- confining the Codes to inter-

overcome by many more people lation have become dependent in sary, the only man in the continent State business und industry. than is generally supposed. Just

one form or another upon State who is uplifted. above electioneer- Now, however, all these points as Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain

millions of ing considerations. He should have been thrown completely spoke prose all his life without relief. Over twenty

persons are supported in various show himself resolved to act with forms by Government agenes in out a thought for self or party, into the background by the knowing it, so, apparently, in- Court decision that the Codes numerable unexpected men

the land which of all others was but only for the nation as a whole. write poetry unawares. are all irregular and and have women been instituted without au-

Dickens's novels, notably "The Old only yesterday austerely censuring He should wield the mighty au the carefully organised system of thority which he still holds with- out the slightest regard to parti- Curiosity Shop, especially in the the British dole. thority. The purely legal as-

sanship or passion, in accordance pect of the question is no doubt pathetic passages, are positively

with what he sincerely belleves to of peculiar and special interest splashed about with blank versu.

Already the distant but advance be the true interests of his coun- In this spirit he will be able to those who have studied con-academic works on natural scienceing drum-beats of a Presidential | try.

with candour stitutional law, but for President burst into ccatatic poetry without election can be, heard. Already to avow mistakes Roosevelt and his followers it is their writers guessing it. Whewell, politicians turn their gaze to this and correct them with composure. the practical upshot of the de- in his famous "Elementary Trea- familiar quarter of the horizon. If he falls he will fall with dig cision that is most important.lise on Mechanics,"

able to preservere. Overnight, the really vital fea. Passage: "lence no force, how Everyone must soon take his sta-nity. If he rises again he will be

ever grent, can stretch a cord, haw tures of the N.R.A. structure

ever fine, into a horizontal line He have been wiped out, with the which is accurately straight." result that the whole industrial was much surprised when it was sphere has been suddenly plung-pointed out to him that this was ed into confusion. At the mo-poetry-not very unlike Tenny- ment of writing, the Government son's "In Memoriam" in meter. is considering the whole problem Similar remarks apply to parts of Smith's "Optica" and several of appropriate action, and we may be certain that President other learned works. Thus, there may be verse especially blank Roosevelt will not be content to

verse-all around us, without our leave the situation where it is.

even guessing it. It may be in the The danger of a policy of in- letters of our friend; perchance action is too great to need em- right here beneath one's very noge, phasis. One report states that | the deft iambic may be tucked away the President is determined to in this discussion of poetic-prvser re-establish in some legal way the principles of collective bar- wages and gaining, minimum maximum working hours, as well as the abolition of child labour. Obviously, believing what he does us to the necessity of mea- sures of ensuring fair conditions of work and labour, Mr. Roose velt could not be expected to sit back and let matters take their Both waste time. Find out the own course. His policies may maximum speed for the second and not have commanded universal third gears. Get into second gear approval, but that they have almost as soon as the car begins been appreciated by small busi- neas and by the worker is beyond dispute. It is inconceivable that then change into third. Do the the President will now permit

same on this gear. If 28 m.p.. the situation to degenerate. is the maximum for accond gear There are big dangers in the change into third when the car is approximately 24 present position, and provocative travelling at

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ever, be found in the fact that statesmanlike manner; he may President Roosevelt is handling be trusted to do the fair thing the situation in a calm and for the nation as a whole.

"It does give you an independent feeling, doesn't it?"

War Department.

Washington, D. C.

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EASY PICKINGS.

Hon. Frank D, Abell: Dear Senator:

I am interested in your in- vestigation of the Port of New York Authority.

It has been noised about town for a long time that "pickings" on the bridge was great..

From my observations a man. cannot work for $36 per week and enjoy the following luxuries Pay board, buy a new automobile, fre- quent cabarets and speakeasies, entertain indies, pay for the up- keep of a car, neither can ho afford to go to a speakeasy put a $100 bill down on the bar and stay until the $100 is licked up.

Trusting that this information will be of some value to you,

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