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D'ÁZEVEDO.--At the French Hos- pital, at 411... on 3rd November. 1037, Manuel Jose D'Azevedo, aged 74 years. The Funeral will pass the Monument ni 5.30 p.m. to-day.

SHEWAN.--On

Wednesday, 3rd

PHILIP JORDAN in another of his stories of men The met in his recent visit to America tells here of Harry Lloyd Hopkins who spends millions in rescuing the self- respect of the unemployed

HE SPENDS SIXTY MILLION

POUNDS A YEAR

TINE floors up, in a

N

room

hung with

modern pictures, is the office of Harry Lloyd Hopkins, who spends £60,000,000 every year; and wishes he had a whole lot

more.

And if Harry Hopkins, cari- ing his long legs round chairs and tables, were not the most re- markable of the contents of his

November, 1937, at the French office, the pictures which de- Hospital, Causeway Bay, Mrs. E

A.

Shewan of North

View corate it would be. Not for Bungalow, beloved wife of their

is quality, which inz-

William

Shewan (deceased).

Funeral will pass Ute Monument different; not for their imagi at 5 p.m. to-morrow.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1937.

native conception and originality:

which are almost totally lacking, but because they are the symbol

of a dream come true.

They were painted by unem-

ployed artists, and they were

From his head, and from those of a devoted staff, idens 1low unceasingly and are-80 far as a limited budget permits -transmuted into reality.

"We couldn't finish all there is to do in 30 years," Harry. Hopkins says. And if he can. he'll go on for 30 years.

Neither the jeers of economic royalista nor their lobbying against him are going to stop him. He has the inestimable advantages of not being a cynic and of possessing an integrity rare in any public life.

**

His drawback as I have al- ready said—is a taste 'for play- ing politics. It may be that he plays them because of his unalterable conviction-which I share that there is no man in the States who could do the

DOING THE LEAGUE

paid for out of Government books gets the sort of work knowledge that nothing worth job half so well as he; and thint. OF NATIONS' JOB

funds not because they were which is most congenial to them. while can be accomplished with- he is not willing to jeopardise The ident of collective secur good but because their artists To treat each individual unem out daring and without, some his position for anything, that ity, which has seemed to have were unemployed.

ployed person merely as a poten- times, throwing caution over is not 100 per cent. worth fight- been almost lost of late, has

come suddenly back into pro- The agency through which tial producer whatever task board.

ing for. minence. With the adoption of they were purchased is the same may next come to hand would He talks fiercely but without measures by Great Britain and agency as that which purchases be as abhorrent to him as the gesture-80 that he gives you France, assisted by

confidence. Occasionally he

other

powers, to patrol the Mediter-the labour and time and talents idea of pay for no work. ranean against pirate submar-jof America's vast hordes of un- That such an outlook im- whips his spectacles on and off: ines, the principle reappeared in employed men and women.

a leg and It is mensely complicates his task occasionally uncoils the political scheme. It Was -very-welcome-It-has-been

called the Works Progress Ad- is obvious. The human element, wraps it round something else; shown that it is no impossible ministration; and the head of it, the psychological element, is as but he doesn't move his hend. ideal and that international its guiding spirit and creator, much a part of his book-keeping So that, like a man paralysed police action is a practical pro-is young 47 years' old Harry and card-index system as the from the waist up, there is some- position. All that is required is the will and the determination Hopkins, the man with the long names and addresses of those thing unreal about him. and the courage to put it into legs.

for whom it is his job to find But the unreality, of course, operation.

Harry Hopkins believes that work; for he refuses to treat is not that at all: what is un-

If he knows that the art of politics is compromise, he does not the less despise the necessity for compromise.

And he has one other quality: ruthlessness. Sometimes it mani-. feats itself in ways that make one believe that our own degrad- ing system of the dole has some- thing to be said for it, after all,

He can, at the stroke of a pen,

With the meeting of the without work an unemployed the individual as a unit of the real is to be a man who gets lay off relief, as and when he

powers in Brussels, which Japan

things done in a land where thinks fit, as many people as he everybody prefers talk to chooses. Sixty thousand, one action; and who allows no hundred thousand, may wake one morning and find enemy, however powerful, to up the meeting is to discover some which almost alone raises him ciate the magnitude of his task deflect him from his purpose, that they have no means of sub- means of mediation in the Far from the animal. And since it or the devotion which he brings which is to save the souls of not sistance. Statistics, brought into

has refused to attend, the world man or woman can never be a mass.

will take another step in the useful citizen or a human being It isn't while talking with direction of collective effort to with the minimum of dignity Harry Hopkins that you appre- preserve peace. The object of

East war, but if mediation is not is Harry Hopkins's job to spend to it. When he talks the whole accepted the powers will be £60,000,000 a year among a thing seems so easy. faced with the necessity of de-flock of people who would other-

far short of 12,000,000 Ameri- play in the W.P.A. offices, have can men and women.

shown that industry can, absorb That is Harry Hopkins' great that number; and so that same the alternative must be some constantly devising ways and on him he seems to bear the but it will come a great deal market, of intervention. It would seem of plenty, he has devised and is heavy responsibilities which lie dream. It won't all come true, number is thrown back into the thing fairly drastic if it is to means of creating work for

ciding upon some other course wise die of starvation in the land He is young, and to the

succeed. For that reason the which he can pay a fair wage. same sort of objective relation nearer realisation than almost obvious Japanese endeavour to He will not hand out money as an astro-physicist bears to any other of the dreams which

Such social insecurity is one prejudice the Brussels paficy as a dole. That, he thinks, is the space continuum. Just in- fill the heads of what is per- of the two wenk spots in the before it commences appears to degrade the human spirit and terested and knowledgeable; and haps the most remarkable and Works Progress Administration: short-sighted and ill-advised to rot away the heart.

It must be presumed that Japan

is prompted in this policy by the

fact that the powers have failed

not much more.

For the system by which wc,

outstanding federal administra- the other is its inability to reach But all that is merely because tion ever got together in far down and help those who beyond redemption--that enormous stratum of hopelcas existence whose measures is not

are

to take any firm stand in the in this country, support our un he is so fluent and speaks so Washington. past when she has ntlventured employed he has the most pro- frankly. Actually--and you only in China. It is probable that found contempt.

Already his mark is across the Tokyo holds the opinion that if

think about this when you are face of the continent. It touches mediation can be thwarted the He told me so in bitter words, going down in the elevator after almost every outlet of human yet even known. intervention of western nations laying the cheap premium you have loft him--the WP.A. energy: Intellectual labour and Harry Hopkins would like to in the affairs of the Far East which wo pay against revolti is the mainstay of his life and manual labour: from the higher do something about them, but will be effectively checked-and, by paying, degrade the possibly for ever.

spirit of those who receive their the passion of his nature; and aesthetica to the buildings of he only has an income of £60,-. At least three major powers, weekly dele.

he eats it and breathes it and sewers-overywhere and in 000,000 a year. And that's all however, are going to Brussels For money received Harry sleeps it and drinks it; and if, every occupation his with a fairly determined air. Hopkins thinks that work should just now and then, he likes to witten. The United States' presence be done. Not merely for the play politics.a shade too much, there and the very positive stand sake of work but for the sake of

taken by the President of that preserving self-respect; and for that is merely a recreation from the rrent republic in his recent out-that reason he will take an which he returns refreshed.. line of foreign policy, increases endless trouble to see that, so

The hope of the supporters of far as his limited means allow,

something. Is about to be done. After dismal failures on

the

name la there is to it.

But that his

:

name means

The Federal Theatre-perhaps something in the vast poverty most extraordinary mani- belts in the United States is cer- festation of dramatic vitality tain. Indeed, should Roosevelt ever known-came into being run a third time, and should he

collective security that at last cach man and woman on la He looks like a mixture of because he signed a cheque. win, the work of Harry Hopkins professor and amateur sailor; Children in every State stand will perhaps have meant the dif part of the League of Nations, which rightly belongs to Geneva, and the description will do as the chance of being healthier ference there is a chance that a group of No-one will cavil at that develop well as any. From his profca- citizens because of the schools failure. nations outside the League, but ment. The vehicle's shape and defending the principles on colour make no

sional side comes a full imagi- and homes and swimming batlis difference which it was founded, may long as it safely renches its nation tempered by caution: which his enterprise has called but Harry Hopkins bears it very shoulder the responsibility 'destination.

from the other a sense of the into reality.

well.

between auccess

and.

That's a heavy responsibility,