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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1932.
Three
Henderson's
Fiery Steeds
Labour Antics And Lords Reform
GOVERNMENT PROCEDURE
After reading Sir Alfred Hopkin there would be nothing to protect son's excellent article on House the nation from a Lansbury, a of Lords reform, and the Kirkwood, a Cripps, 'or a Jack Jones on Sir Arthur Steel-In the Chair but the Royal vete, Excursioners to Macao on the speeches Taishan on Sunday were treated to Maitland's resolution at the Black which still exists. The magic worths some delightful string music by the pool Conference, I felt that I had "Le Rel le veult" must still be pro- |nounced by the Clerk of Parliament Moonshine Melody Makers. Three not lived in vain.
For both Sir Alfred Hopkinson at the table of the House of Lords of their number crooned-a number of the maladies. The Steln song, and Sir Arthur Maitland advocated, before an Act becomes a Law. It proved a popular number.. when sometimes in almost identical terms, will be an evil day if this contúries- leaving from Hong Kong and from the points which I have pressed for old formula has to be changed into "Le Roi s'avisera" or "Le Roi ne Macao on the return journey. Some years.
In one point Sir Alfred Hopkin-veult." of the passengers.indulged in don-
son is immeasurably supérior to Siri Personally, I regard the maxim cing.
Arthur Steel-Maitland and Lord that the power of taxing lies solely Rankelllour and the rest. He has in the Commons as "a creed out. the comprehension and the courage worn," a survival from the day to proclaim that the first step to any when the Crown and the nobles were A POSER.
real reform in the repeal of the the enemies. As all the financial London County Hall has Parliament Act, which he rightly magnates are to-day peers, I see no been found to move with the tides calls that misbegotten, monstro-reason why the nation should be This raises the problem whether
alty." As I have so often deprived of their advice, and I the minutes should now read: "On shown, it Was conceived in should welcome the placing of the
Your Daily Smile.
The
the motion of the County Hall the fraud and carried by vio-Budget and all Money Bills in the
Council adjourned."-
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MADE TO ORDER. SALESMAN: The gentleman wants to know if the coat will
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has recovered only from 13 per shrink. cent. of capacity at the end of CHIEF: Is it too large? August to 15% per cent. On "Yes." the other hand, the textile in- "Of course it will shrink" Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 17, 1932-dustry has begun to display re- markable activity. The report
THE SURE CURE. of the Cotton Textile Merchants'
"I am so weak, ductor, the chro-ed Association made the sales of nic female complainer salt. cotton cloths in August 50 per "Take an iron tonic," replied the cent. aboye the. year's previous doctor.
Outlook For Business Recovery,
veto?
lence. It never
received, the same position as other Bills. sanction of the British electors, ..Composition of the House.. ELEMENTARY, WATSON,
for the majority was compared of The composition of the House of A footballer states that at the 84 Irish Sinn Feiners, who voted Lords strikes me as the least im- beginning of the season he is all for it only as a means of escape portant part of the question. Sir aches. Shooting pains, of course from the British Parliament. As Alfred Hopkinson suggests life for the 42 trades-unionist members, peers, to which I have no objection, not elected or will anyone maintain that they, at provided they are that time a purely sectional group, nominated by the Sovereign on the were sufficient warrant for a great advice of the Prime Minister. - The revolutionary change? The Liberals great thing is to compose your and Conservatives, as everybody Second Chamber of independent, knowa, tied, their numbers being educated gentlemon. Perhaps they exactly equal.
might be nominated on the advice of Purge the Statute Book. a joint committee, such as now sits The 'ground must be clear-to advise on the distribution of and the Statute Book purg-honours and rewards. When a list
this ed of
Infamous Act, was published the other day of some Otherwise Reform will be lost 150 gentlemen whom Asquith would in the awamps .of compro-have advised the King to creste best monthly record and nearly "I have been taking one," she re
How else peers to carry the Parliament Act, With attention converged as 40 per cent, above this season in plied, "but it hasn't done me any mises and amendments. it now is upon the question of years like 1928. It is quite in good. I am so weak that I can can you get rid of the suspensory it was astonishing what a respect- At present if a Bill is catable, unexceptionable list it was ried in three successive sesalons it The truth is that there are always” British trade recovery, the actual line with experience that such hardly walk a dozen yards." industries as clothing and foot- "Take a taxi," he growled.
becomes law without the assant of walking about the West End hun- course of business seems at the wear should lead in recovery as
the House of Lorda. In other dreds of potential peers, untitled moment to be regarded with they have done; for the primary Facts You Did Not
words, if a Socialist-Labour Party noblemen, uncoroneted lords. somewhat
impression. cause of sudden increase in con
should have a real majority, and mixed
Know.
This question of a strengthened were agreed upon anything, it would Second Chamber has been made Gratification at signs of improve gumption of goods, after pro-
longed postponement of pur- A fabric trunk that can be ad-only be necessary to be patient for more urgent by the antics of the ment from the recent very low chases, is replenishment of ex-justed to hold varied amounts of three seasons, about two years and Labour Party Conference. Unekr level of activity is tempered with hausted supplies, andweering clothing has been invented that a bittock, to carry the most revolu- Arthur proved to be quite incom something of disappointment apparel will be the first to feel
that need. Some other produc- can be fitted to any automobile tionary measure you can imagine. petent to drive his three fiery ateeds, How is it that has never happened the Communists, the Trade Union- that revival is so slow. Even ing industries may have to await baggage rack or running board.
In the past 22 years? The answer ists and the Socialist Intelligentsia, in regard to trades which
now a more general movement of re- A Boston man has invented as the War, and post-War politics; to say nothing of the Independent make gratifying comparison covery. The steel trade, for
Curiously, the most egregious with a few months ago, doubts example, depends greatly for its system of whirling blades to be and the fact that the Socialist-cum- Labour Party fearing outside.
mounted behind an automobila Labour Party has never had a orders on activity in building winshield to break up the glare majority sufficiently large and suf-nonsense was talked by three gentle- are occasionally expressed whe
construction, railway main-
ficiently harmonious to peralat in men who had all held office under from approaching headlights. ther that is anything more than tenance and output of motor
any policy.
the Crown, one as a Cabinet Minis- With regard to the constitutional ter, and whe had all enjoyed the the usual increased activity of cars, and those three sources of With an area of 26,935 square
demand have perhaps been miles the Irish Free State has 46,- maxim that the power of taxing is advantage of what is supposed to be Of this it may at affected most severely of all in 462 miles of improved, and surfaced in the Commons alone, Sir Alfred the best education this country can least be said that occurrence of the trade depression, have shown highways, forming a network that Hopkinson is sufficiently Con- afford. Sir Charles Trevelyan, ex- servative to retain this practice, Minister of Education, was educated actual Autumn trade expansion, as yet little symptom of recovers the country,
anfeguarded by two provisos: (1) at Harrow and Trinity, Cambridge, even if only "seasonal," would covery, and are likely to be slowedyjon Calde
Materials used in the construc-that a Money Bill shall be confined Dr. Dalton at Eton and King's, and itself mark a salutary change. in actual revival. Nevertheless,
Lawrence (former In 1981 and 1930 the season fail- the condition of abnormally low tion of the Hoover dam are being to its legitimate fupetion of pre- Mr. Pethick
supplies exists in this as in all tested in a Denver building with aviding for the expenditure of the Financial Secretary to the Trea- ed to produce any such improve- Industries. Against the present chine that has a crushing power current year; (2) that what is ary) at Eton and Trinity. I don't known as "tacking" shall not be per-count Sir Stafford Cripps among the ment; statistical indices of in- 15 or 16 per cent capacity out of 4,000,000 pounds.
missible.
V donkeys his nonsense la calculated. dustrial activity showed continu- put" of the steel producers we
Gladstone, the great artificer of He la of the same revolutionary--- constitutional frauds, was the first lawyer breed as his father and Sir Chancellor to practius: tacking William Jowitt."
Autumn.
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News in Brief.
The Lords having rejected a Bill Mr. Lawrence's “Gumption." to reduce the paper duty, Glad- But the effervescent "rubbidge” stone calmly smuggled the clause poured forth by⠀⠀ Sir Charles into his next Budget.
Trevelyan and Dr. Dalton on the Vigilance Necessary.subject of banking would make a Standing Orders or resolutions of cat laugh, and was actually rebuked
have the tradition, cited a year ing reaction throughout the
or two ago by The Iron Age, Autumn. But there are other thint "rock-bottom requirements considerations to be kept, in of an economically strong and One case of diphtheria was noti- fed to the health authorities, on mind. Emphatic business re-growing country for such pro Tuesday
ducts exceed a 50 to 60 per covery, when
so protracted a cent production. Taking con- Mr. D. Maclachla will speak on period of industrial depression sumption and production as a History and Reincarnation" at the has run its course, always comes whole, the fact is evident enough asual weekly public lecture of the the House of Commons were passed by Mr. Ernest Bevin, who caustical- slowly; in the nature of things, that, in Wall Street's phrase, Hong Kong Lodge, the Theosophical
Society, 17, Queen's Road Central, to prohibit tacking, but they have ly observed that this question was reversal of trend cannot occur the corner has been turned."
either been repealed or disregarded, not to be settled by rhetoric." Mr. with the overnight suddenness Business recovery, even if slow to day at 6 pm.
Indeed, as nearly alt legislation Is Pothick Lawrence, who has been of an upturn on the Stock Ex-is real. It is possible that, in pa
nowadays concerned with money, it inside the Treasury, had just Inconnection with the Strequires the utmost vigilance to enough gumption to plead for delay. change. In other years when re other industries than textiles, covery after a period of depres- return of financial confidence, Andrew's Ball on November 26, a
detect or prevent tacking. A Bill, The relations between the Bank of" sion turned out to have fore with existing supplies at a whol- reel practice was held yesterday for instance, is passed to settle the England and the Treasury, and the shadowed a great economic ly abnormal minimum, may pre from 6.30 to 7 p.m. in the Peninsula
remuneration of school teachers, duties of the Governor of the Bank, change, the preliminary revival sently cause such inrush of Hotel, and another is to be held next which has nothing to do with the may require revision. But with was sometimes confident, affect orders, which cannot be quickly, Tuesday, at the same time.
current national needs, but la la- regard to the jolat stock banks, if ing practically every branch of filled, as to give decided stimulus per mo
tended to be permanent; it must they came under political control trade. More often, however, it to activity. This is at any rate The Hong Kong Art Club will
contain financial provisions. If this they would cease to exist, for nobody was uncertain, irregularly dis what happened in 1922 and 1909 hold its annual exhibition this year le certified by the Speaker as a would trust them with his money. tributed mong the different in- and 1896, in immediate sequence on the eighth floor of Gloucester Money Bill it is removed from the Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland's re- dustries, and not infrequently to the extreme retrenchment of Ballding, on December 78 and jurisdiction of the House of Lords solution that a measure for the re followed by something of reaca severe depression. Even on from 10 am to 7 pm each day. As Lord Rankeilleur, who has been form of the Second Chamber should tion when deferred and impera- those occasions, however, the the local talent is of a distinctly
recovery - did high standard, another delightful Deputy-Spear and Chairman of be carried during the life of the tive requirements had been fill- spectacu
Ways and Means, said that there present Parliament was carried ed. All this makes it intarest, not outlast replacement of ime series of paintings, sketches, photo was no measure, however revolution-unanimously by the Blackpool Con- ecessary supplies, graphs and decorative vurk may be ary, as, for instance, the Dleestab-ference, and is, therefore, as clear. ing to inquire just what has hapvedihtel
int cours
of bust looked forward to. pened or is happening in general The subse trade. It is evident that trade
and toil handi-
as a whole is at the pres moment doing distinct
than at the time, when
cial situation seem darkest, six mon
equall vident ment has been
VB productions mon
tance Low level of the per
lishment of the Church, or the aboli- and as imperativa a mandate as tion of the House of Lords, that could be conveyed from a party to might not be passed into law its leaders. within
Personal Pars.
red ing
Bhagat Sin
sterday.
been
five weeks without the Yet I doubt whether it will be
doubt that it
obey
Thom
MacDonald and
be keen about.
and Runciman
MY Baldw cold water on any