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THE ABYSSINIAN BACKGROUND

CWS

NOTES OF THE DAY

LIBERALISM AND LABELS

·In spite of aspersions cast upon democracy In BUMG quarters, there must be something attrac- tivo in the iden of self-govern-

or

AUGUST 14, 1935.

SMASHING CRIME

IN AMERICA

BY W. F. BULLOCK

The Very Idea!

SUMMER SAYINGS

"Get'em, alive or dead, but get¡gation. So confident now is "G Preparing The Public For

'em."

Those words blazing forth from the front of a famous roadway cinema told all who cared to know that a new "G-Man" film had come to, town..

Man Number One" that his men gangster that he says, "Sooner or will win out against the modern later we get them."

Weekend Outings

(By Eddie Kelly. Chef) HAT with summer here, and people

WH

ment, otherwise people would not be so insistent on having them- selves known as liberals, or demo- progressives. Indivi- crats, duals and political parties in

When a G-Man is on the job ́ha many countries go out of their ("way to retain the Inbel of liberal-

It was Machine-Gun Kelly' who carries a map, a wrench, n ham- a chisel, sealingwax. named the members of the Federalmer, les, fam, even when pursuing policies Bureau of Investigation "G-Mon." eldglasses, a handsaw, & note. which the true. Liberal would He himself was captured bromebook, a tape measure, a flashlight, spending their spare disown. A good example la found of them. Kelly had two platols soft rubber tape for Angerprint-time at picnics and what In the names of party groups. in with him. He did not use either. ing, and the inevitable piece of

we think some the French Chamber of Deputies.

"Why, if you were armed, didn't string. Hoover likes hia men to nots,

resemble lawyers, bank-clerks, hints on this all impor- On the Right, or conservative you shoot?" he was asked.

doctors, taxi-drivera; anything but Ride of the Chamber, is one group "I knew if 1 did," answered the the ruthless bloodhounds they tant subject would be which calls itself the Democra-gangster, "that you G-Men would seek to be. He has

man in welcome. shoot me."

Texas who is small, and as round tic-Republican Union, and an- other which proclaima itself to be

ghot with either hand and was as he is high. But he is a dead

Besides, it's the only the Social-Republican Group. Yet

brought up as a Texas ranger, the parties bearing these labels

thing we've got to write are thoroughly conservative. In

Opposed to there men of law about to-day. the centre of the Chamber, where

There are many who think that shoot only to kill, crooked poll- at a picnic is salt.

enemies, including gangsters who The first thing you want moderates are supposed to alt, are these Federal agents

Salt is two groups calling themselves, of a place beside

worthy ticians, smart underworld lawyers, respectively, "Popular

Demo-Yard detectives. They are de doctors who. "lift" the

the Scotland officials who take bribes, criminal what you take the "Very Left." scribed as equal to crats" and "The Radical

of Idea" with a grain of. It is the famous rich desperadoes, and women who used as The Frenchman, even the conser. Canadian Mounties and as being shelter them. Dillinger was trap i

a flavouring for. more dramatic in action than the vative Frenchman, likes to think French Surete.

ped because the G-Men knew that Janimal, vegetable, mineral of himself as something of n

he was mad about films. What- and tails of the birds you liberal and parties which want than 600 men. These few hundreds not keep away from cinema. Ito

This force numbers hardly more ever the risk, that desperado could can't catch, hin vote are wiae in choosing seek to protect the lives and pro-was shot to death outside one. names which seem to promise de perty of 126,000,000, They work votion to the ideals of the Third from Maine to California, Republic.

ALL PROGRESSIVES

Officially there men are known as the F.B.I., a contraction which with the famous C.I.D. of Scotland brings them superficially on a par Yard.

AN

from

and order are 10,000 public

faces

There are three kinds of Every effort is being made to salt. One, obtained at sea, the Mexican order to the Cana Bureau, consistent with the States is the salt of the earth and extend the activities of the is called "old salt;" another dian line. Tre Bureau In Wa-rights to police their own domain.

shington has this year an appro- The Bureau has 5,000 Anger- there is also a tough old salt,

priation of £800,000 with which to operate.

It is now a Federal offence to rob

to

Combined with salt pepper makes a nice suit of plus fours for the winter. It is mined by

It is estimated that last prints of men known to rob banks. Epsom, by name. In the United Staten to-day your, when the allotment. WAS there are New-Dealers and anti- much smaller, £4,000,000 in fines bank which contains Federal Pepper is what the modern new Dealers, both eager to be known and recovered stolen property tonished when Federal agents keep her canned food hot in-

moneys. One bank robber was Hongkong housewife uses A liberali and progressives, were reclaimed by Mr. Edgar

arrested him. "What," he Rexford Tugwell, whose name is Hoover, and his devoted men.

ex definitely with. | claimed, "are intimately linked with New Deal

you guys doing Edgar Hoover, who is not relat-here. This is not legistalion, has recently published to the former President, only Bank."

Π National ed an article exalting "The Pro-Look over the job when assured gressive Tradition," but

"No." replied an "That's to influence his work. He has a small boy might say. nothin', for Lewis W. Douglas, bulldog temperament. Ils men

"I wish I'd known It," remarked former director of the budget, has call him ruthless in action, but the gangster ruefully, brought out a book severely criti- | devoted to their interests. He cizing the New Deal under the knows every one of them, their title, "The Liberal Tradition." In faults and their capabilities. Germany, the ruling party is known as National Socialists, but

agent,

"but

as a politics would never be allowed there's Government money in punching holes in the top of a

When

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•

all

in with a rusty nail.

Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra.

Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra. BD-178 My heart jumped over the Moon-Fox Trot

Jackson's Orchestra, Little Golden Locket-Fox Trot Jackson's Orchestra. On the Prom, Prom, Promenade-One Step

The whole world is at the

Pepper is very dangerous. If Jackson's Orchestra. | moment. watching the I Love you Gipsy-Fox Trot

taken in large quantities it pro- Jackson's Orchestra, despatches concerning the tri-

In his office Hoover has a map duces a condition known as pep. BD-174 On the Good Ship Lollipop Film "Bright Eyes")

of the United States atuck partite parley in Paris between

Pep is pepper with the last about with pine. Each pin with three letters omitted. If they Rudy Vallee's Or. | British, French and Italian I've got a Note---Fox Trot

delegates, convened for the pur-

to an outside observer scema to "National 7117 Washinglan" starts tells him at a glanco where his are not omitted it is still pepper.

the telephone number tiny coloured label attached New Mayfair Dance Orchestra.pose of smoothing the way to n

be much more national than

inen are and what is each one's

The most famous brand is socialist. There is little doubt, ringing Amerien wakes up with a Me and the Old Folks-Fox Trot

pacific adjustment of the Italo-

however, that the inclusion of hang. Hoover is on the job, issuing particular job. On the top floor Pepperup. New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Abyssinian dispute. These talks

"Socialist" in the party name had Instructions with the speed and of the Department of Justice Cinammon is the difference be- On Venetian Waters-Fox Trot

a good deal to do with building ton. The whole force is concen- ! Here 2,500 sets of Angerprints are of bed on a cold morning.

accuracy of a machine-gun in ac-Building is the fingerprint room.tween breakfast and getting out New Mayfair Dance, Orchestra, from the League Council meet- Lare preparatory to and separate

up the tremendous popular suptrated on the scene of the crime. port which raised Adolf Hitler to

received daily from all parts of Mr. Bluebird-Fox Trot New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. ing which is to be held early

the world.

It comes in all the season's power. The inevitable conclu~* A typical and striking example le hopes that eventually the shades and is particularly be- Jolly good company by the Sea-Six Eight

sion from all this is that there iswas the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. States will take his Department as coming to brunette toast. New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. will be possible to assess the

next month, by which time it something deep in man which re- Within ten minutes of word being the model for their police forces,

bels against arbitrary authority. received in Washington Lots of other interesting records in the

It is a fairly recent product. of the He says that some local police are The old Romans used potassium prospects of a friendly settle-

Every man thinks himself a king, dastardly crime, G-Men from all armed with "horse pistols" against cyanide. The young one's didn't new consignment.

but he would not be a tyrant, and parts of the country were flying to gangsters who use "guns that fire ment of the whole dispute. likes his follows to believe that Tacoma. For three There will be general hope that he will join them in resisting in-nights Hoover and his office staff the G-Men have college degreca, the floor and around the corner days and three mites." Eighty per cent. of care. Cinammon is found all over resort to hostilities, which

Justice and oppression. Even the never went to bed. Cupping his Hoover trains them to the highest of the mouth. least liberal of politicians to-day hand over the telephone bealdo point of efficiency that money will would hardly think of organizing him Hoover rushed such orders as: allow, and "supports them

Sand is the flavouring used repercussions, will be averted. # party to be known Rs Tic "Send Johnson from Son Fran- the best seientille laboratories."

with mostly by picnickers. It 18 Meanwhile, it is worth while to

Absolutist League," vr "The cisco, he's a good shot," or "Go by

If the G-Men ever transformand is discovered by sitting found in almost all bathing suits keep in mind

Autocrats." of the

He would probably airplane and open up an office in Americs into

he called his Tacoma. Tell the family to keep they will have to obliterate some crimeless Utopia get more votes If circumstances which have given

down. party "Republican" or "Democra-quiet and let us handle this,"

pretty tall rise to the troubles now being

statistica. It Is The vendor of this famous tle."

Hoover laughed when the newa- estimated that 12,000 citizens are edible used to be known as the encountered. In this connee-

papers reported that Volney Davis murdered each year, 100,000 sand-man" by the old fashion, tion, it may be recalled that only other matter prior to the Davis was safe in a Chicago gaol, have their homes burgled.

was suspected of the crime. assaulted, 5,000 robbed, and 40,000 but in Hongkong is known as after the clash between Italy disturbing events which have but no one but the Bureau knew Holmes, who looks like the late

Johnny Walker or wassall. and Abyssinia in 1896, a treatynow arisen that need be men-of It.

The coarser varieties of sand was concluded between the twotioned is the general Arbitration

Lon Chaney, has plenty of work are found on our beaches, but Wild rumours that Alvin Kappis ahead of him. But he holds that other grades may be found in countries in 1908. One of the Treaty of the familiar kind was connected with the kidnap the average criminal is a coward, buildings, mixed with cement. chief provisions of this Treaty between Italy and Abyssinia G-Men to aid their secret investi-punishment is severe enough.

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suggested that there should be that Was signed in 1928. a frontier 180 miles from the Troubles began in September sca. The further provision that last, rumours of troop. this frontier should be definitely movements by Italy and of marked out has nover been Abyssinian

arming-but the folled, each country blaming first serious outbreak occurred the other for this failure. at Ualual, the centre of a line Abyssinia is entirely surrounded of wells. In atlases of 1926 by territories ruled or controlled and.. earlier, Ualual lies 60 by Britain, France and Italy; miles within Abyssinian terri- and by a Treaty between these tory, but in or about 1931 Italian three countries signed, in 1906 troops occupied Ualual. It is

to the

it was agreed that the integrity impossible to summarise im- and independence of Abyssinia partially what happened there on should be respected. In 1925 November 23 and the following Britain and Italy came to an days, though full reports have agreement with regard to their been sent to their respective respective economic interests in Governments by the British, Abyssinia. As Abyssinia her-Abyssinian, and Italian officers self had not been consulted, she in charge--and also protested to the League, of League of Nations. On Decem-: which she had been a member ber 5 und the following days, since 1928, and though both actual hostilities occurred be Powers immediately declared at tween Italian and Abyssinian Geneva that they had no an- troops. This then is the first of nexationist aims, she has since the "incidents" and as the truth carefully preferred to give about them is highly controver economic privileges to members sial and also in a sense sub judice of States other than her neigh it would be wise to conclude bours. An instance of this is a this outline of recent history recent cotton growing concession with the hope that it may have to Japanese citizens. Another fulfilled its purpose of drawing example is to be found in the attention to the historical back- difficulties about the proper con- ground on a knowledge of which trol of Lake Tana, which lies alone fair judgments may be well within Abyssinia and is the reached with regard to the source of the Blue Nile. The matters in issue.

The now American Sherlock

"Sometimes, when I hear the boss getting the worst of a deal, It's all I can do to keep from butting right in on the

conversation."

When sand is "by itself it is called beach. When it is mixed with ham and bread it is called randwich. It is always mixed with ham and bread at picnics. There is no substitute for sand, [the nearest thing being the

ocean.

Short Story

Mrs. Whalesteeth was airing-her- troubles.

"I don't know what I'm going to do about Pete," she said.

"I'm sick and tired of quarreling with him every night when he comes home drunk."

"Why not," sold her nearest friend, "try kindness for ·20. change? Treat him lovingly the next time he comes home in that. condition, and see what happens:""

Mrs. Whalesteath agreed. Late that night, Pete rolled up the stairs and, after some difficulty, let himself in the front door.

She was waiting for him.

"Darling," she gushed, "let me take your coat and shoes off. There you are, aweet, just sit down there for a while and make your- self comfortable."

"Huh!" said Pete, slumping into the chair heavily.

"Docs 100 love '00 Httle anookums?" she asked as she un- dressed him.

"Ifub!" said Pote.

"There you are now, Pot," sho added, "Come on into bed now, dear, you must be tired."

"Huh," said Pete, "might as well. If I go home that old hon. of mine will give a hall!"