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democracy of the world. Without great reserves of political stability. in these countries there is a danger of democracy suffering serious discredit.
He would be a bold man who would vanture to define the Rights of Empire at the present time; but every public-spirited man must be aware of its Duties. The one we have dealt with is being carried on patiently and, under "great diM- culties in India. The burden of responsibility may in the future prove a very great one for those" who have come to the Far East." Presumably most of them have come primarily for commercial purposes, but it is to be hoped that they will also assist in the heavy task of democratizing, the East, not by active participation, but by having in their lives a steady" undertow of consciousness that it
is for them, by implication rather than by preaching, to guide and influence the people with whom they come into contact.
The Empire finds its ultimate justification only in a great selfless task of this nature. Where such a policy may lead to none can say, but, whatever its result on the visible unity of the Empire, there remains the certainty that the. aim of British Imperialism will have been a high, and worthy one, untainted by the blemishes that. are usually associated with the activities of dominant peoples..
Example.
SATURDAY
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
THE FLAG priate is the song Peculiarly appro and
given below for Empire Day "It was written by Miss Rachel Henslowe and was awarded a £50 prize by the Loadon "Morning Post" :
THE FLAG "Unfurl the banner of England; Tell to the heavens her story, A thousand years she has held
it fast,
A thousand years of a mighty
past,
The tale of a nation's glory.
"Red for the nation's heart,
White for the stainless brand, Blue for the girding sea
That for ever guard's the land. "Turn to the record of England, Open that page of splendour, Trac'd in letters of shining gold,
Unfading still from the days Our hafange to that we render
of old,
Red, &c., &c.
Is it all we can do for England? Nay, now, for the need is
o'er us
For King and Country, for home
and faith,
And how to endure, if the end
be death, They have taught, who went
before us..
"Red, &c., &c.
For bright little STOCKINGLESS girls in cabaret
shows to dispense
and on
when
dance
they
is
If example is better than with stockings precept, then the life of the late come
·
Thus Sir Bart THESE tram Hayes in): MILLIONAIRES, his recont book on his
sea experiences:-
In the early days of the Britannic there was great rivalry between Mr. Morgan and Mr. William H Vanderbilt as to which of them should have certain rooms on her, Their dates for crossing' the Atlantic very often clashed, so to
certain
In our
settle the matter for a number of years at any rate Mr. Vanderblit, when he was New York office taking his passage, engaged the rooms in question for five years in advance.
New autumn fashions FASHION: for men introduce a have never before been stat especially in golf, sporting and ¡country Buits. Rich golden- browns, flame colour, blue-greys, biscuits, and also a combination of any two contrasting colours form ing a small check pattern, and diagonala in two-colour effects, are the latest for lounge suits. The smartest colours are beetroot, yellow, blue, mauve and grey. Evening suits will carry an indis tinet. diamond pattern or a fine stripe. This innovation is design- ed to distinguish the well-dressed man from a walter,
variety of colours that
"All women who wish to their husbands A TIP. keep
'should have their hair
· bobbed,” declared Judge Thomas Graham. the famous divorce judge, wiko B known as
he
Mr. Montague Ede should be one nothing unusual, but this fashion worth emulating." In an age when is seldom followed in the ballroom motives, are often stated to be by members of the public. Yet at the great reconciler" in San selfish, the transparent honesty of the New Princes in Piccadilly the Francisco. "The only way a wife effort shown by Mr. Ede placed other might it was noticed that the can keep a husband nowadays is to him above the ruck of place. position was reversed. Archie de make herself attractive." hunters, title scckers. or leaders Bear's "Five O'clock Follies" were explains. "Husbands do not like wives with bedraggled hair." of popular causes. The fickleness putting on their very bright am of human nature did not our attractive mid-night pierrot show Bobbed hair was introduced over himelse had there been no the first supper-time pierrot two years ago, yet no bobbed- Kowloon Tong scheme, and he has show that London dancers have haired wife has applied to Judge Graham for a divorce. Signí- been known to express his opinion, seen incidentally-id the girls
the "other, of the attitude of an ex-Governor in it ware stockings. But when ficantly enough,"
the lookers-on dunced three woman"--the womiri whose allur Empire is a matter for quiet on a certain matter, in no China Mail steady thought followed by ambiguous way. Stress is laid on girls were seen to take the flooring appearance has overwhelmed who were daring enough to have the scruples of somebody's hus- patient action: no true friend of his guidance of one of the largest discarded their stockings! When band has frequently possessed
insurance companies in the world, the ankle in slim and shapely it is this type of coiffure. the Empire can be a blusterer.
It is to his great honour that he rather an attractive fashion, and, Que vadis? What answer are was not entirely wedded to his we who liv in this outpost of the business but that the cause of anyway, in these days of flesh- colourings it is hard to say whe-
A mari is what he Empire to give? Is the Empire education, social reform, and ther girls are wearing stockings A THOUGHT. thinks not what
he thinks he is.. good causes generally found in or not. an. association of peoples which him a warm advocate; and this in can yet render such services to spite of a state of health entitling Humanity that its disintegration him to days of leisure and places would be a historical calamity of Mr. Ede's motto might well have more conducive to robust health.
been that of the Prince of Wales.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mra. Ede and family desire to thank their friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in their great bereavement and for the many floral tributes.
Hongkong, Saturday, May 23, 1925.
EMPIRE DAY“ IN HONGKONG.
the first order?
remarks he
п
THE EARL OF MEATH ON EMPIRE DAY.
Let us face the fact frankly│···
People cometimen want to know the scholars meeting in the morning that in pursuing an impérial policy | A Fool's Paradise.
Gional Anthem and to salute the Thinking people will have read, where, and when an idea at the boot fi to sing the Na the British people are making the
flag. tremendous assumption that they with interest the speech by the which bus anterinised and become Hon. Attorney General on the popular was first started. A mallise
Bingu, then it has gradually are blessed with some inherent Rents Ordinance. Thinking people factory answer to such a question grown und Barpite Duy has superiority which justifies them in generally will agres with the is often difficult to give, for it is came officially recognisel by the doing so.
And let us frankly and pessimistic
felt almost impossible for any one muntovaruments of nearly all portions without arrogance claim that we time has come when we should
impelled to make. Surely theor woman to claim the exclusive of our far-flung British Dominions, including India and the Home have certain qualities which it cease uttering platitudes concern-
Country With the exception of seems to us are lacking in other ing "the chaos in the adjoining
India, which joined last year, the people. It is those qualities province" and so arrange legisla
Home Country was the last to step [înto ling, in the year 1915. which render it imperative that the Empire be carried on with the same energy as in the past but with perhaps a little more fore- thought.
tion to cope with the situation.
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The last report issued by the Empire Day Movement, under the guidance of a joint, com- atmites composed of members of the old Empire Movement and of the Royal Colonial Justitute, under the able chairmanship of Sir Lawrence | Wallsen, with offices in Northum- herland avenue, states that 71,264 sedioals and heurly | 9,750,000; scholars observed Empire Day in 1922.
These figures are probably below the actual number, us many schools neglect to report to head- quarters, and of course, they do not include the vast multitude of adults who, especially oversees, take part, in the celebrations, for Empire Thay is a statutory holiday in most but our self-government dominions." If, therefore, we were to double
It is evident. we cannot have it both ways. The land boom, more or less, was due to the aforesaid "chaos." Refugeen-rich ́ and poor-came here, and they needed. houses. No one will contend that Let us confine ourselves to one the foreign element as a single service which can be rendered, and entity has constituted a housing in so doing perhaps give an indica-problem. That entity has suffered tion of the nature of the Empire's owing to the results of the "chaos." Our crime statistics are destiny.
far from encouraging. Against it The menace of Untutored is the "chaos." And yet nothing Democracy is the Damoclean is done but to chant the same old It is a regrettable fact that in is ample evidence in the weary gloomy view needs to be taken of Stord of the 20th century. "There parrot-like cry. Legislation should be attuned to conditions, and a England Empire Day remaina
groaning and creaking of the those conditions. The departure mainly an affair of the Services constitutional machinery of many of Dr. Son has not improved and of the schools. Perhaps it is European countries to prove that matters and the warring ele more than can be expected for a
they
ments “in the adjoining province""" not yet ripe for are as active as ever. are
| the above-given figures we probably The Hon. population which is sorely tried democratic government--witness Attorney General has expressed possession of an idea. Similar ideas.
should not be overstating the mum- hers of men, women, and children- by the manoeuvres of politicians the problems confronting Russia, his own opinion only; and he will are always aimmering in the brains who are anally subject to the in heavily engaged in carrying on
Rumania, Italy, Spain and even tention. Why not make a begin-ther's existence and thoughts.
have many with him in his con- of many who are ignorant of each finenes of the movement. What is the warfare of peace to maintain
that infinence? Surely it is not France. And when a larger ning by either establishing the Spika spring out at or about the necessary after nearly thirty years an interest in the intricate pro-survey of the world is taken, there Rents Ordinance for a number of same time from the brain furnace to explain that its aim is the very blems of Empire. But here in are many indications that in a years or for ever the former of like-minded enthusiasts. Some reverse of what some would endea Hongkong these problems are of
The praferably.
Government are fanned by propitious
your to make out, namely, that it. sufficient immediate concern to democracy is a new-fangled im- plan of legislation in which premanture dead from lack of moes, and nations.
could then get on with a prepared stances into active ilante, some die advocates war and ill-will between everybody to merit the assump- portation superimposed on peoples although the cry of "chaos" would fostering cite or from puro-mis In 1904 I publicly stated that is being paid to this matter, and unprepared for such develop nised. There is a suspicion about ultimately reach the fiery stage of celobrations shall be the outward be silent, it would still be recog: fortuna, and amongst those that "It is intended that the Empire
Without a careful inculcation of meat that it consists of muddling with confidence which really first peoples who constitute the British certain forms of Colonial Govern their existence it is difficult to say, agn of an inner awakening of the
tion that considerable attention
that Empire Day is to many an occasion of something more than ceremonial parades.
There can be no doubt that the cause of Empire has more to fear from its friends-than from its enemies: the Britisker who sneers at his country carries weight with none, not even with the most convinced opponent of
But who fo
woeful
ments.
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number of
countries
TO-DAY'S SMILE.
the sprit of parliamentarianism through. democracy stands for confusion and inefficiency, prolific parents; strife at home and war abroad. Westminster is rightly
the claimed as the Mother of Parliaments, a
and ahe holds this position by virtue of no happy historical accident, but the result of the steady sane remedies to
EARD OF MEATH
aircom-
sprang into the air as living sparks. Empire to the serious duties which Such is the case in almost every be at their door. Its watchwords discovery, and the Empire move are Responsibility, Duty, Sym mont is no exception to this rule.pathy, and Belf-sacrifice, and pai Its succean in due to the active, of these it requires some ingenui though in nome instances unknown to manufacturo a gospel of hatred, and airpoogafædd labours, of, mady and of ill-will. patriotic, men, and women un al: Let our rallying cry them for parts of the King's Dominions......... As far ha personally a conc ed, the first: timo I gave expression to the idea beh „Empits, moverent, wis-
“God, Duty," and "Empire"" heard on Empura Day from one of his Majesty's dominions, to other, and let us not forget on thi great, oocomon to devote a
nts of silent homage