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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Thursday, OCTOBER 29, 1936.

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· LANDON

Age 15, was iconspicuous figure) till 1932, when he won Kansan Gov- ernorship despite pro-Rosevelt land- slide. Halanerd his budgets Cill Republicans-Conservative, Big Bual- near--spotted him as a candidate.

Westerner, Straightforward Middle .cautious and shrewd, good mixer.

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ROOSEVELT

Age 54. Of old Dutch ancestry. is one of few members of the "Four Hundred" (America's aristocracy) to enter polities. Educated at Gro- ton, Eton of U.S., and at larward, tured Democrat despite family's Tigid Republicanism. Distant cousin of famous Theodore Roosevelt.

Million Americans

THREE AND A half million of the most indepen- dent voters in America probably will decide on November 9 who is to be

will decide

It is a disturbing technique. It keeps the country in a froth of uncertainty,

There is a chance that over half of the seven million in- dependents are tired of the man HE HAS TRAVELLED Roosevelt and his New Deal and

Hongkong Telegraph. Hoover in 1928 and for Roosevelt up their minds. Maybe they farther, and been seen by more will vote for Landon, not be

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If Roosevelt can be sure of

just over half the seven million elcoted independents he is

granted, of course, that his following is evenly distributed through the forty-eight slates).

have.

· By·

Raymond Gram Swing

And

The New Deal which has emerged from It is a curious hodge-podge, which not even well-versed New Dealers can the standard their most important speeches

easily describe. So many thank all friends for their ready the next President of the enough, but

bearers have been the epitome policy. He hasn't made speeches Americans are tired of the New helv, kind expressions of United States. They are of dignity.

at all. He has not campaigned. Del, because it is not simple and sympathy, floral tributes and attendance at the funeral service, half of the seven million

Those who pretend to know Instead, as President he has

logical. in her recent sad bereavement.

non-party voters in the last how the election will turn out begn surveying the drought area, two American elections. must be able to say that over going to Canada, and doing other

three and a half million in, official work. Most of them voted for dicpendents have already made

in 1932. The year they voted

voters, than if he were cam- cause he has other aims, but for Hoover, his Democratie op would be that they have decided been for his office, not his can

If they have, my own guess paigning. But the honour has because his hand is stendier. ponent Al Smith received 16- for Mr. Roosevelt. Perhaps all didacy. It may have done his To do so they will need to be ,000, votes. The year they seven million of them know candidacy more good than if he convinced that Landon is a pro- that he will voted for Roosevelt. his Re- pretty well that they will vote had been vote-hunting. It has gressive, and publican opponent Hoover re- for Roosevelt, and if they do he put Governor Landon under a dominate the Republican party and not be a tool of the interests {ceived 15,000,000 vates.

will carry the country in as near handicap.

which have dominated the party The opening of the Hongkong

a landslide as he had four years Travel Association's headquar- This year the outcome of the

He has been opposed to the since the days of Theodore ago.

President, not the man seeking Roosevelt. So far they are not ters yesterday provides visitors election depends, not on the rock-

But if they are independent re-election.

convinced. The probabilities are to the Colony with ready freill- (bottom ifteen million in each

they will not be convinced in ties which they have hitherto party, who can be relied on to voters they may not have made

Governor Landon has made November. Blacked, and marks welcome follow the flag, but on the in- up their minds. They may wish

to hear both candidates deliver an ineffectual' beginning ኣዜ . step forward in the movement dependent vote.

THE BEST POOLS taken to attract more tourists to our

so fur under-score the expecta- Ishores. Conveniently situated

tion of Roosevelt's re-election. near the principal shipping

Certain states are for Roosevelt heyond a shadow of a doubt. To wharves, the Bureau will fulfil a A long-felt need. Until the Travel

get a majority of states he Association came into being, the

needs win only Idaho, Montana, visitor to Colony was left

West Virginia, Colorado, Michi- The election campaign is, in

gan and one small doubtful state cept for such services as were effect, focussed on these seven

He is without now rated Republican. rendered him--by the hotels. million independent voters. Out before choosing. In that event campaigner. Now he will be able to go direct of the total forty millions, they they cannot have made up their mastery of any of the arts of The Republicans have only

minds, for the main speeches of public appeal. But everywhere half as many sure states. to the Bureau and not only will decide the outcome.

the campaign will not be deliver- he has gone he has made friends, well over two-thirds of what secure all the information which

THAT EXPLAINS why ed until the end of this month.

whose friends begin to hear what they need for a majority must The needs, but also be given every"

a fine man he is,

be classed as highly doubtful. facility for seeing the sights and Repablican Governor Landon is

They may believe that as enjoying privileges in the way stressing his progressivism; he

That is his rank to-day: he is The close fights are in New of recreation which were not figures that the seven million things stand to-day they will

After his York Pennsylvania, Illinois, previously open to the tourist, voted for Roosevelt four years vote for Roosevelt, but be open "a mighty nice man."

argument from Governor main speeches he may win a Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Town. Now that we have regular air ago largely because he is a to

higher rank in public esteem. liberal. That explains, too, why Landon.

Compare these close states with links with the Homeland,

the close states in the Roosevelt Malaya.

the campaign is not bitter. Both Australia and the

The Governor had made only. A good many Americans are column.

(Some hate United States, with an early sides are appealing to the most

It is clear that. Landon has prospect of aerial. transport to sensitive element in the Ameri- wo important speeches by early tired of Roosevelt.

can political conflict. Rough September, one on taxation, the him, particularly those in the and from China as well, Hong-

other on freedom in education, upper income brackets, but I only a fighting chance which. His views on the greater issues am not referring to them.) he must fight for in the very kong should attract a growing stuff would give offence. number of visitors, especially Both Roosevelt and Landon of relief, labour and social They admire his optimism, they heart of America. He must win him. with excellent all his major battles; Roosevelt. during the winter season. Lord have been restrained and gallant security are scheduled for fater. credit Rothermere. during his short as adversarics. Their lleuten- And President Roosevelt has motives, but they are tired of needs to win only a few minor stay here, was tremendously imants

been boisterous been following a very canny his technique. pressed both with the scenic benuties of the Colony and with the delightful autumn climate. He hazarded the view that, with Jail the attractions we have to offer, there. Is no reason what- ever, now that we are on the map aerially, why wealthy people who make a practice of wintering abroad, should not bear this

ṛLIZABETH Cromwell, the wife of With her London upbringing this Mistress Cromwell is a plain, sen- Colony in mind, the more so since

Oliver Cromwell, died on October country squire's wife was no doubt food and starched collar; but in the simple request (made at a time

sible-looking housewife, in Puritan is good lady's response to living costs would be no higher

able to play the great lady when corner of the picture is a climbing when Cromwell was at war with than those which they are in the 8, 1072. habit of paying elsewhere. The daughter of a wealthy Lendon occasion called for it. Indeed, an monkey, a device known to all as Spain), was that "orangen

and for her part she never intended Gradually, Hongkong is becom- merchant, Sir James Boureller, she historian of a century later tells us the nymbol of an ignorant upstart oranges now, and cost a grout aplece,

"She was a hundred times more to give it!" ing popular amongst people in had, In 1820 married a man whorn that stie was "a woman of enlarged

understanding and elevated spirit," suited for a barn than Malaya and the North who are Carlyle hus described as "a solid, and "an excellent housewife. as the writer tells us. When she came Mistress Cromwell's one luxury able to snatch a few weeks' leave substantial, inoffensive farmer of St. copable of descending to the kitchen the Palace of Whitehail she had was the keeping of a couch, and her.

and Inbyrinths" favourite recreation --the former finding a welcome | Ives:" she had brought up a family with propriety as she was of

in her exalted station with dignity," little "trap stairs change in the cooler weather of four sons and four daughters; she Yet, strangely enough, it is from the mide, so that she might watch her out with her daughters for a country here and the latter appreciating had lived through the horrors of a back-stair gossip of an anonymous servunts unseen and catch evildoers picnic. But even this simple plea- a climate which is more equable Civil War in which husband and writer-perhaps a discharged servant untwares. She had partitions put sure was a cause for grievance with than the rigours of winter to sons were fighting, and one son. was that we gather most of our scanty up in many of the great apartments, our author, for the coach and horses ns she found them too large after were kept up at the expense of the the room2. of her modest country nation. And as for the picnics: "It- which they are exposed. Noted to be killed; and then, when youth information about this model of the

was past, she had left her country domestic virtues,

house. She kept cows in St. James's saved many a meal at home, when Americans who arrived here

home in Huntingdonshire for

Parts and a dairy in Whitehall, and upon pretence of business her lady- went ubroud, and carrying aboard the Philippines Clipper palace in Whitehall, to share the

a "covey" of spinsters and sewers in ship

provant for her own were surprised at the beauties high estate of the husband now pre-

her privy chamber. "They were nii some dainty claimed as "Oliver Cromwell, Lord

"The Court and the Kilchen of of Wiem ministers' daughters and her daughters' report, she spent of the place--and they may be, counted upon to make known England, Scotland, and Ireland."

Protector of the Commonwealth of Elizabeth Cromwell, commonly call-fuet not apparently counted to their whole days in short visits and long

walks in the air." ed Joan Cromwell, the wife of the credit in Royalist circles! their impressions when they get-

Usurper, truly described and repre-

Plenty of good plain food was Poor Mistress Cromwelll Under back to the States. All these

sented," was published in 1804, four

to her household by his the microscope of a spiteful 'critle, people who come here and are task without ample funds, and years after the Restoration. It pre-served

sents 2 very curious mixture of careful housekeeper, "Scotch collops her careful housewifery and simple

of living were "sordid fru impressed by Hongkong as the measure of its success must cookery, politics, and spitefulness, and marrow puddings were two ways

The Rality," though no doubt greater winter resort are an asset to the be the measure of the support and leaves us in no doubt as to the favourite breakfast dishes! Colony, since they spread far it receives. Hongkong has Royalist sympathies of the author. kitchen scraps were given alter-luxury would have been just us natively to the poor of St. Martin's surely denounced as ostentatious ex- and wide the atimations we have everything to gain by judicious The nickname Joan was a telling

in-the-Fields

and St. Margaret's travagance. She survived her hus- to offer. But organised pro-advertising of its claims on the one, for in these days Joan was Westminster; and, after great ban-band by fourteen years, dying in the that is precisely, the purpose for interests of the Colony as a wench ("Greasy Joan doth keel the would be called in to eat up the tonshire. We can only hope that in which the Travel Association whole to see that the Association pot," sang Shakespeare half a cen-relics of the vielunin. Yet our her quiet country home she remem was created. The Association is enabled to exert the maximuni of humble erigin is carried out in Cromwell was a woman of "sordid cares, of her five years in a palace,

lury carlier). The same insinuation kitchen eriile tells us that Mistress bered the pleasures, rather than the Cannot, however, discharge its influence of which it is capable, the frontispiece, a-portrait-showing-Crugality and thrifty basenesa."

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