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NEW YORK

is getting up steam

FIRST Impression of New renewed prosperity; Its citizens

York. From the rails of are recovering lost pride in

the west-bound liner passing their City..

the Battery at dusk on #

January evening, the "down-

town" skyscrapers-low clouds THERE la much in which atranming leawards from their

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

of functional design. The And in one sense this impres- Rockefeller Centre tower, seen sion abides. New York is no from

the angle of its narrow longer anchored to depression. flank, is as beautiful a piece of Wall Street is cheerful, hotels architecture as any in the 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 spenders.

For those with means (and to

the

Rentals are on the up-grade; "live" in New York's style de-

Hongkong Telegraph.metropolis is outward bound for

at

By

Aylmer Vallance

once empty Empire State mands a "childless married- Kurds the roof of Rockefeller's Building is beginning to glitter counle" income of 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. "Then 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 and that a single profession. "New York is cruel it is the There is Manhattan is beginning once glass of alleged, "Scotch" can to honest men, but more to "feel good" about it still produce a good imitation of gangsters' paradise.

headache. But no other city in the world con- Europe's western-most Pre-Repeal

pleasant places, office arrange- money." ments art 器

Where delight, social

the money is, there meetings are numerous and shall the gangsters be gathered Since "Dutch" usually to a city's spiritual atti- Schultz was "given the works" tude-ubound in shops and a few months ago New York has friends' houses alike.

seen little gun-play in public; but "rackets" "protective" blackmail In the poultry, veget- has gone far to solve its trades, and no less in the labour

living apartments are mostly taining so many mugs with

THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1938.

NOTES OF THE DAY

BRITAIN LOOKS

TO DEFENCE

POST OFFICE PROGRESS

The General Post Office is onel

No surprises are contained in of the greatest of British business the long-awaited White Paper organisations. The efficiency with

further

increase of £1,600,000 over those of

hospitable, and books-the clue together.

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York

MOREOVER, New able and other distributive

but above

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which it handles the enormous traffic problems oivilisation's unions--still flourish exceeding- setting forth the British Govern-amount of work that comes within worst drawback. The subway ly. And there arc more ment's programme for national its province has won high praise at the rush-hours is not to be genteel "rackets," too. Cor- and Empire defence. Moderni-from experts from many countries recommended to sufferers from poration law, for instance.. sation and expansion of all three abroad. Last year was a year of crowd complex;

outstanding progress, and 1936 ground, despite the lax enforce-

ment of penalties for obstruc- ALSO there are the politi services are the keynote of the promises

developments. tive parking, it is possible

cians. To-day New scheme, together with adequate The department's profits for 1936 generally to drive from point to York seethes with a hatred

for Franklin D. Roosevelt worries Republican New York organisation of industry enabl-are. estimated at £13,000,000-an point with reasonable speed.

For this, New Yorkers can which has to be seen to be is the absence, so far, of a really ing quick production of equip 1934. The wages bill for the year thank in part their strictly ree-belleved.

President's good "selling" candidate. Of ment in time of war. The pro- for all Post Office services was tangular street "lay-out"; but picture is received in chilly the Possibles, Senator Borah is the silence even by "movie" audi- too "anti-Trust," too lacking gramme is based on, flexible | £3,000,000 higher than in the pre- an important factor is lines, so that it can be adjusted vious year, and the staff was in orderly "traffic-light" discipline ences; a Republican campaign in the attributes of youth; fund of unparalleled dimension Colonel Knox, the Chicago pub- of the pedestrians. ercised by eight thousand persons.

There is very little jay walk is already mobilised; where- lisher, has talked too much, and to needs as they arise. It is this

There has been greater activity ing to impede and harass the ever bankers and business wobbled badly over the Bonus;. circumstance which has preclud-in every field of Post Office admin-motor-driver. Why? Largely executives meet, the New Deal the best of them-Governor ed the giving of, information asistration. Three hundred and fifty because the absence of any re- is denounced as unmitigated "Call Me Alf" Landon of Kan-

thousand new telephones have been fuges

sas-is likely to be backed by to the cost of the scheme, a point installed. In November the hum- when the lights permit; a suicl-

makes crossing, except Bolshevism.

only pray to Nowhere in the world is cap- Hearst and can on which there is bound to be her of telephones in use had reach- dal adventure.

italiam rousing its forces with be saved from his friends. Yet before it, be conceded such fury to defend its claim some criticism. Obviously, how-ed the record total of 2,500,000. ever, the expenditure involved The number of calls was also the that New York's-civic-prido is to "sock" the Treasury whono,-to-revort New York- Mayor La Guardia in must be extremely heavy. How highest on record. Reckoning only justifiable, the question must be the shoe pinches and exploit

"What of the human both labour and consumer alike the engine-room-puts out effective calls, the number reached faced:

Somehow the towering when things look like going от a son whose winds seem it is to be met has not yet been was 1,755,000,000

158,000,000 soul?"

buildings seem to dwarf the well.

sat fair for happy days and disclosed. In justification of more than during 1934. The aumental and moral stature of the The mild Whiggism of dollars. Racketeers, "mugs with money," ticker-men, the programme, emphasis is laidber of trunk calla was 95,000,000, majority of the men and women Stanley Baldwin would be the

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- on the point that it does not in- The introduction of a shilling nighti "Are you a gangster?" I was of Manhattan. Here - hoo of Broadway-the cry is: volve any abandonment of the call has proved a great success; asked, my first night In New dividualism outvics the Divine All aboard, and the, yard-

Dutch right of kings. —— Government's policy of Interna-the number of such calls between York, by a sud-faced

A bitter, "dirty" election is places more than seventy-five miles CX-sailor who had been tan tional limitation of armaments. apart was 217 per cent. higher than times round the world and now in sight. The one thing that The Government takes its standin the previous

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year. Parallel

on the established fact that its with the introase from year. to: example of disarmament year in the number of telephone own

subscribers has been a growth in has not been followed by others the mileage of telephone wires and and that in determining the cables. In 1916 there were two Empire's defence needs it is im-million miles of wires and cables possible to disregard the extent under Post Office control; to-day

there are twelve million, including; of the preparations made by 22,500 miles of submarine cables. other nations. Emphasis is also The air mail services, which began rightly laid on the necessity of in 1919, have also been expanded Britain being placed in a posi- greatly In the first year there were only two tons of air mail; tion to play her rightful part in last year seven million letters and the enforcement, by common ac-elghty tons of parcels were car- tion, of international obligations.ried. As was expected, provision is

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, her idealistic notions of un- there are nations which have ob-ilateral disarmament and is in tained such a start in providing earnest in a determination to be themselves with huge air fleets as good realists as the rest. It that prodigious exertions have is admittedly a melancholy com. become absolutely necessary if ment on the present mentality of the lost ground is to be made up. the world that such steps should The nation has long since re- be necessary, but if we are to conciled itself to large expendi- value our national security and ture under this head; indeed, it maintain our authority in the demanda such expenditure. The councils of the nations, there Prime Minister has promised can be no escape from the need definito action without that not a penny more will be of spent in increasing national and further delay. These are the Empire defences than is really considerations which over-ride necessary. At the same time, it all others, argue though we may la patent that half-measures will about tho danger of internation- be useless. A point has been al rivalry in armaments.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

Tru

"I try to keep pp on world affaire so my husband's freds won't think I'm just an ordinary housewife"

to sea.

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arm for the New Dealers." Out but Farm Relief, and the defunct A.A.A. still mean something in the Middle West: The great Manhattan ship' company is still not quote sure what captain will be on the. bridge.

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,

"And how much does Bald Stalin. your Prime Minister receiva?!

"About twice as much." "What an appalling waste," answered Stalin, "Why, look at I thin little chap here, Comrade Kalinin 110's our President, and he doesn't get more than £30`a month."

Mr. Eden took a look at M.7 Kalinin "Really 1 he replied. "I don't expect ho would get much moro In England?””