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IRST Impression of New renewed prosperity; its citizens York. From the rails of aro recovering lost pride in the west-bound liner passing their City.

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the Battery at dusk on a January evening, the "down- town" akyscrapers-low clouds THERE is much in which streaming leawards from thoir

pride is justified." Soar- tops have the appearance of ing amid the Commercial Road somo monstrous battleship's cheapjackery which makes up smokestacks. The City, one the major part of the city, New would say, is steaming specta York's 1920-30 vintage sky.. cularly out to sen.

scrapers are superb examples of functional design. The And in one sense this impres- Rockefeller Centre tower, scen sion abides, New York is no from the angle of its narrow longer anchored to depression. flank, is as beautiful a plece of Wall Street is cheerful, hotels architecture

as any in are full, restaurants and "dan- world.. [cings" ("nite-clubs" in the local Nor are 60-storey buildings vernacular) are packed again Manhattan's sole achievement. with cheerful spendera.. For those with means (and to Rentals are on the up-grade; "live" in New York's style de-

the

the

By

Aylmer Vallance

once empty Empire State mands a "childless married- guards the roof of Rockefeller's Building is beginning to glitter couple" income of at least Tower, proclaiming himself the of an evening with the lighted £2,500 a year) the city's ways of world's last free-trader. "Thon windows of fresh lettings; there life are civilised. Fine cooking why come here?" was his com are signs even that building is is hard to come by, and the un- ment on my disavowal of that about to revive.

wary may find that a single profession. "New York is cruel Manhattan is beginning once

men, but it is the glass of alleged "Scotch" can to honest

There is more to "feel good" about it still produce a good imitation of gangsters' paradise. self. Europe's

headache. But no other city in the world con- ROCHA.—At 4 n.m. on Thursday, 5th metropolis is outward bound for living apartments are mostly taining so many 'mugs with

western-most pre-Repeal March, 1935, Alda, Maria da

pleasant places, office arrange, money." Rocha, aged 19, dearly beloved

ments Bre

Where a delight, social daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J.

the money is, there C. Rocha. Funeral will pass the

meetings are numerous and shall the gangsters be gathered Monument at G.30 p.m. this afternoon,

DEATH.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

NOTES OF THE DAY hospitable, and books the clue together. Since "Dutch"

POST OFFICE PROGRESS

and 1936

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usually to n city's spiritual atti- Schultz was "given the works” tude abound in shops and a few months ago New York has friends' houses alike.

scen little gun-play in public; The General Post Office to one

but "rackets"-"protective" blackmail in the poultry, veget- of the greatest of British business

MOREOVER, New York able and other distributive organisations, The efficiency with

has gone far to solve its trades, and no less in the labour which it handles the enormous traffic problems-civilisation's unions-still flourish exceeding- THURSDAY, March 5, 1936. amount of work that comes within worst drawback. The subway ly. And there Arc more Its province has won high praise at the rush-hours is not to be genteel "rackets," too. Cor- from experts from many countries recommended to sufferers from poration law, for instance. BRITAIN LOOKS

abroad. Last year was a year of crowd, complex: but above TO DEFENCE

outstanding progress,

ground, despite the lax enforce. ment of penalties for obstruc- promlacs further developments. tive parking, it is possible

ALSO there are the politi- No surprises are contained in The department's profits for 1935 generally to drive from point to York seethes with

cians. To-day New the long-awaited White Paper are estimated at £13,000,000-an point with reasonable speed.

a hatred for Franklin D. Roosevelt worries Republican New York setting forth the British Govern- increase of £1,500,000 over those of For this, New Yorkers can which has to be seen to be Is the absence, so far, of a really ment's programme for national 1934. The wages-bill for the year thank in part their strictly rec-believed. The President's good "selling" candidato. of and Empire defence. Moderni- for all Post Office services was tangular street "lay-out", but picture is received in chilly the Possibles, Senator Borah is sation and expansion of all three | £3,000,000 higher than in the pre- an important factor is the silence even by "movie" audi- too "anti-Trust," too lacking the attributes of youth; services are the keynote of the vious year, and the staff was in- orderly "traffic-light" discipline ences; a Republican campaign in

of the pedestrians.

fund of unparalleled dimension Colonel Knox, the Chicago pub- scheme, together with adequate creased by eight thousand persons.

There is very little jay walk is already mobilised; where- lisher, has talked too much and. There has been greater activity organisation of industry enabl- |

in every field of Post Office admin-motor-driver. Why?

ing to impede and harass the ever bankers and business wobbled badly over the Bonus: ing quick production of equip istration. Three hundred and fifty because the absence of any re- is denounced as unmitigated "Call Me Alf"-Landon of Kan- Largely executives meet, the New Deal the best of them-Governor ment in time of war. The pro-thousand new telephones have been fuges gramme is based on flexible installed. In November the num- when the lights permit, a suici- Nowhere in the world is cap Hearst and can

mukes crossing, except Bolshevism.

Ansis likely to be backed by only pray to lines, so that it can be adjusted ber of telephones in use had reach-dal adventure.

italism rousing its forces with be saved from his friends. to needs as they arise. It is this ed the record total of 2,600,000. Yet before it be conceded such fury to defend its claim circumstance which has preclud- The number of calls was also the that New York's civic přide is to "sock" the Treasury when

CO. to revert, New York- ed the giving of information as highest on record. Reckoning only justifiable, the question must be the shoe pinches and exploit

Mayor La Guardia in soul?" Somehow the towering when things look like going -168.000.000 buildings seem

to dwarf the well.

on which there is bound to be was

1,755,000,000

The Introduction of a shilling night

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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So.

to sea

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to the cost of the scheme, a point effective calls, the number reached, faced. "What of the human both labour and consumer alike the engine-room-puts out оп a son whose winds seem some criticism. Obviously, how-more than during 1934. The num-mental and moral stature of the The mild Whiggism set fair for happy days and of dollars, Racketeers, "mugs ever, the expenditure involved ber of trunk calls was 95,000,000. majority of the men and women Stanley Baldwin would be the with money," Licker-men, must be extremely heavy. How compared with 82,000,000 in 1934. who live and work in them. policy of a "Red" in the eyes hoteliers and the whole bally. it is to be met has not yet been call has proved a great success: asked, my first night in New dividualism

"Are you a gangster?” I was of Manhattan. Here

outvies the Divine "All aboard, and the yard- in hoo of Broadway the cry fa: disclosed. In justification of

the number of such calls between York, by a sud-faced Dutch right of kings. the programme, emphasis is laid places more than seventy-five miles, ex-sailor who had been ten

A bitter, "dirty" election is arm for the Now Dealers." Out on the point that it does not in-apart was 217 per cent. higher than times round the world and now in sight. The one thing that and the defunct A.A.A. still but Farm Relief volve any abandonment of the in the previous year, Parallel]

mean something in the Middle Government's policy of interna-with the Increase from year to

West. The great Manhattan tional limitation-of armaments, year in the number of telephone

ship' company is still not quote The Government takes its stand subscribers has been a growth in

sure what captain will be on the on the established fact that its the mileage of telephone wires and

bridge. own example of disarmament cables. In 1916 there were two has not been followed by others, million miles of wires and cables and that in determining the under Post Office control; to-day Empire's defence needs it is im- possible to disregard the extent The air mail services, which began of the preparations made by in 1919, have also been expanded other nations. Emphasis is also greatly. In the first year there rightly laid on the necessity of were only two tous of air mail; Britain being placed in a posi- last year seven million letters and, tion to play her rightful part in eighty tons of parcels were car- the enforcement, by common ac- ried.

tion, of international obligations.

As was expected, provision' is

there are twelve million, including 22,550 miles of submarine cables.

made for large-scale expansion reached at which Britain, has to of the Air Force, in which new show to the world that she has, types of machines will be in- regretfully though it be, shed corporated. In this sphere, hor idealistic,notions of un- there are nations which have ob- ilateral disarmament and is in tained such a start in providing | carnest in a determination to be themselves with huge air fleets as good realists as the rest. It that prodigious exortions have is admittedly a melancholý com- become absolutely necessary if ment on the present mentality of the fost ground is to be made up. the world that such steps should The nation has long sincere be necessary, but if we are to conciled itself. to large expendi- value our national security and turo under this head; Indeed, it maintain our authority in the demands such expenditure. The councils of the nations, there Prime Minister has promised can be no escape from the need that not a penny more will be of definito action without spent in increasing national and further delay. These the Empire defences than is really considerations which over-ride necessary. At the same time, it all others, argue though we may is patent that half-measures will about the danger of internation- be useless. A point has been al riyalry in armaments.

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Between

The Headlines

"WHAT is the salary,"

asked Stalin of Mr. Eden during his visit to Moscow, "which you give to

your Minister of Labour in England?"

"£2,000 a year,” replied Mr. Eden.

"Just think how much money your Treasury must throw away,” Bald Stalin. "And how much does your Prime Minister recoivo?"

"About twice

much."

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"What an appalling waste" answered Stalin "Why, look at this little chap" here, Comrade Kalinin. In's our President, and he doesn't get more than £36 a month."

Mr. Eden took a look at M. Kalinin. Really?" he replied. "I don't expect he would get much more in England."