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...years, announces the following program: "Veritas March." "On the Mail," and "Goofus," by the Banjo Club; Herbert's "Serenade," and "A Petits Pas" by the Mandolin Club; "Schneider's Band." The Gondoliers," and "Two Grenadiers" by the Vocal Club," "Make Believe," "Sophisticated Lady," "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet," "Puddin' Head Jones," and "Indian Summer" by the Orchestra. As specialty presentations, Malcolm G. Holmes 3G, an accomplished violinist, will play a group of classical selections, and the famous Pyorrhean Sorority, now in its third season, will sing a group of humorous songs. Another feature on the program will...
...system. This Louis XV promptly introduced into France, with Casanova as manager, later conferred on him a pension which enabled him to visit and seduce elegant ladies in all parts of Europe. Until recently the Third Republic has scorned to stoop to lotteries, but two months ago Finance Minister Bonnet decided he must take the plunge. Last week he put on sale a batch of 2,000,000 lottery tickets, soon to be followed by four similar batches...
Each ticket is priced at 100 francs ($3.92 gold, $6 Roosevelt), thus making the total lottery stake one billion francs. If all this were velvet M. Bonnet could wipe out one-sixth of the deficit at one stroke. Instead 60% of the lottery proceeds must flow back to the public in prizes, 10% will pay expenses, only 30% going to M. Bonnet's Treasury to help pay French War veterans' pensions...
From the first, last week, there was no doubt of the Bonnet Lottery's smashing success. Long before dawn impatient queues formed all over France in front of banks, post offices, tax-collection bureaus, tobacco shops. Doors opened at 9 a. m., Frenchmen shoved and fought to buy. By 9:30 every ticket in the first batch of 2,000,000 was sold and speculators were reselling them to disappointed latecomers at a 20% premium. Drawings to determine winners in the first batch will be held on Armistice Day in Paris' lofty, crescent-shaped Palais du Trocadero facing...
Since everyone knows that lottery methods cannot fill the bucket of France's deficit, crucial interest began to focus on the reassembling of the Chamber of Deputies next month. Writing in Le Capital last week former Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin, no friend of his successor M. Bonnet, submitted a brutal analysis of the budget situation, proved that the Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely...