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Women as Tax-Gatherers » Women are now employed in every branch of tax-collecting at Somerset House. Two have just| been appointed Collectors of Income Tax-one to Manchester, the other | to Belfast
The post of collector was the last for which women became eligible. They were previonaly engaged in assessing and charging super-tax, {destà duties and income tax.
So far, ton women have been ad- vanced to the grade of Inspector of Taxes. The frat fully-fledged wo- man Inspector was appointed the other day to Paddington, and tax- payers in other London. districts may soon expect to have their re- turns dealt with by women
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1933
SHAW'S GOVERNMENT REFORM PLAN
"ABOLISH THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT”
"STOP FOREIGN TRADE”
Bernard Shaw swept aside the present form of Parliamentary government in Britain and out. lined a new system of his own making in a recent lecture be- fore the Fabian Society in Lon- don. The following article is made of excerpts from the stenographic report of his lec ture, which Mr. Shaw called, "In Praise of Guy Fawkes.”
"By George Bernard Shaw,” What is Parliament in this country?
for the National State or the Im-
perial State, or perhaps the King. Georgian State, which really does not commit you to, anything what--
|ever.
In this system you will see that, when you go to the final thinking. organ, the Cabinet or thinkers, the secretary, of that or the dictator. of that, or the moving spirit of that, will be as near a dictator as, you can very well get.
A System of Dictators. A woman must serve five years'
But you need not be alarmed at probation before she is admitted as
Parliament is a sort of central the name. You have never had Inspector. No other Government
It is the central anything else. but dictators, you organisation. department imposes such a severe engine of public speaking, from know, although you did not call probationary test.
But the system is not as
Your Daily Smile.
for him.
SHE COULD SEE IT. FIRST WAITRESS: I asked him! if the grapefruit was juicy enough
SECOND;, What did he say? FIRST: Nothing. But I read the answer in his 'eyes.
which the tradition of public speak them so. ing, spread through the community. people imagine when they talk of I do not know whether you have Stalin in Russia-one dictator at heard anybody ask a question as to the top. The system is a system of the qualification of a member of dictators all through. All the man- Parliament for the work of legislaagement from the first Congress tion governing the country. I never election-the local men, the national did; but there is one question which directors, the officials and all the you may sometimes hear asked: "Is rest of It-all these men in their he a good speaker?" If it turns out departments are really dictators that he is a good speaker, or is be. There is no opposition. There is no loved by a certain number of people discussion.
I go back like a child to the to be a good speaker, then that is considered suficient qualification. innate simplicities, the old Fabian Son (home for vacation): Well
And I think it is. I think that simplicities. And It Is there that I dad, I've brought some books on the real function of Parliament in come to the point as to what this farming for you to dig into.
this country is to prevent anything new organisation of government is Dad, (a farmer): "Yes, and I've being done by talking about it, going to do with its power. How is bought another eighty acres for you endlessly talking about it.
it going to arrange things? to dig into.
One of the noteworthy publica-: HILTON-On February
Southport, Lancashire, Mrs. tions of 1992 was a translation into "Hilton, beloved mother of Mrs. English of the "Geography" of story!
Stan Hill, of Hong Kong.
Ptolemy, whose name as An 45- tronomer is associated with geocentric theory of the universe.
The China Mail. Although he is among the foremost
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Of all the madnesses that afflicti In the early Fabian days there this country politically, I should were certain things that we kept think the worst is to expect that rubbing into the public. One of SRE: You see, that girl? She's this instrument (Parliament) could them was that the existing sysetm just received $2,500 for a short love possibly be an instrument of social was really nothing in essence but a ism or an instrument of any modern gigantic robbery of the poor, napie- H.E: "Good heavens, that's a lot system which requires the continual, ly, that what was the matter with of money for a short story! Did poaltive activity of government, society was that there was a not *she sell the movie rights on it? which requires government to be an very large thass of people who were SHE: No-she sold it to a jury, organisation which has its hand on getting for nothing whatsoever an not merely human conduct in the enormous share of the wealth pro- FLUENTLY.
police sense, but on industry, on for-duced in this country. of contributors to geography, no
At the present time, when the "Greenley is boasting that heign trade, on the accumulation of complete: English, German, French learned to speak French fluently in capital in this country, on all its State, as we now know, is enabled Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1933. or Italian translation of his work a month.”
vítal industries, controlling. them, to take enormous masses of that and consequently not a negative money back from them by income body, defeating government, ut, a tax and super-tax, you cannot pre- positive body, not only controlling tend that there is any difficulty in government but actually executing getting all you want back from it and itself being the government them, and look at the advantage you- In the Place of Parliament. get. You not only make sure of
enormous accumulation When you get rid of your Parlia-an
of ment, what are you going to get in capital, because you put a stop to its place! Very roughly, what is all their waste and extravagance, going to be the democratic founda- and all that you add to the capital |tion of your "government?
which you can use in a productive Roughly, as we see by looking at way, but there is something else you the experiments that have been can do.
The Export of Capital made, by looking at Italy, by look-
You never have any guarantee as
Presidential Strain.
of
"I can't understand him.” "Nor can a Frenchman."
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"What qualifications have you?" "Oh, I've got a couple of pretty reliable corna.
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had appeared until the American scholar Edward Luther Stevenson {undertook this important task. Its publication was made possible by English newspapers,
in com-the "generous interest" of George menting upon the death of Mr. F. Baker Jr. and Grenville Kanc. Coolidge, remarked that Ameri: To the translation are added cans kill off their Presidents by twenty-seven maps (in full-size re- overwork. There is no proof production) of the "splendissimus" that this was the case with Mr. Codex Ebnerianus, declared by Coolidge.
Joseph Fischer He left office in fine Professor. health, and apparently, had aj Vienna to be the chief source of Tilting. It over on its projecting|ing at Russia, you get, to begin right to expect a long life. But the Roman edition of Ptolemy. It base a new magazine rack becomes with, the people electing representa- to what these people will do with there is no doubt that the work was the same Professor Fischer a foot reat for a person seated in a tives. There are certain conditions this immense rass of wealth that which attend the election of repre- is thrown on their hands, ever sentatives, ́it' representatives are of the Presidency has been so en-who discovered a man which should larged and intensified as to be most precious. to us of the. Now
really going to be representative.
In the first place, the candidate threaten to wear out any incum-World-the so-called Waldseemul bent not of the most robust ler map-for it was the first one, physique. It is an old story, so far as known, on which the dating as far back at least as the name "America? appeared: It was time of John Quincy Adams, published by a group of scholars in
A new faucet automatically closes terest in becoming representative who bitterly complained in his St. Die, France, in connection with
a small book or pamphlet, entitled when the lever is released after except the satisfaction of his own diary that officeseekers and in- truding Congressmen used up all "As Introduction to the Cosmo-ing depressed but can be made to taste and faculty for doing putole grophy of Ptolemy. In this little remain open without pressure on work. He must get no other: ade his day and left him no time to book was first printed, in 1507, the
the lever by raising the latter above vantage than that. the neutral point. think or plan President name which was Engraved upon Wilson sought to safeguard is the map. By a singular, coln-
To conserve national timber the cidence, at the very time of the none too ample physical strength preparation and publication of Mexican government will conduct by announcing early in his Ad- this introduction to a treatise on an educational campaign through ministration that he would see no the Ptolemaic system, Copernicus out the country to lastruct the pu applicants for office expect by "amid his multifarious occups-blic in the use of both coal and pe-
tions" was elaborating R new troleum for fuel purposes. appointment. But he was not]
system of astronomy, which haá
Instead of rubber tires the wheel rims of an English inventor's mo torcycle are filled with ball bearings must be known to the electors. That INFANTRY slightly larger than billiard balls, is obviously the first thing. He permitting turns, at high speed must also belong to the same class
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as the electora: "Hé also must have no interest in being:elicted," no÷in-
that fact.
RECRUITS
INCREASE
Higher Standard Of
New Army,
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WAR-OFFICE CONCERN SUBSIDING
Gur, friend, Sir Oswald Masley, gun; for an occupational, franchise, and in Russia they practically have an occupational franchise. Only ja
London that way is it conceivable that you
The serious shortage in the will get groups of people who are Infantry of the Ling, which has electing people whom they actually been growing, for several years, know. So that, when a man la put has at last been checked, and the forward as a candidate, if he is a "gap" which" Eas been causing iman of questionable charactar, adme-alarm at the War Office in fficely: body is sure to get up and mention to be rented in the near future
by some thotmanda oë mishi [here to that resolution. There outlook on, the universe," It may
Patrons of the Repulse Bay We will suppose that the Congress Aleven greater worse of surely ought to be some way of be said that America, "the fourth
land," was baptised under the Hotel, are advised by the Manage, was elected, it then has to proceed satisfaction is the fact that more relieving the strain of the Fresh Ptolemaic systems, sincs, it, got, ita ment, that the meus dinner dance to elect, with x certain amount of the and more young men of good dency. One recourse, might be mame in that association, but that will not take place on Wednesday, same imowledge the chiefs of indus- education are joining the army, to end the custom
of malding the the United States of America be the 16th instant.
try throughout the country, the im- The army of yesterday recruited gan, its national; “existence, under
mense civil service, which is neces- Its ranks almost entirely from Fresident. s peep show for every the Copernican. The round earth Ten cassa of small-por (5 occursary for the Socialist or Fascist or the unskilled, but the application band of visitors that straggles of Ptolemy was in the centre of ring in Hong Kong and five in Communist State, or whatever is of science to warfare, has come *pletely revolutionisid Ita charac- Into Washington. A dummy what shamed then spacious Kowloon), and 5 cases of menin- coming,
Two Cabinets Needed.
ter. A technical personnel) in might be employed to do the universe with the heavenly bodies witis were notified to the Health
|revplying, about it, To-day. It 16) Authorities on Monday.
Vary well. These people elect the now needed to Waket the dentands handshaking of the multitude in bat, an inanitesimal planes in a
local chiefs, and then the local chiefs of the new mechanised units the East Room. Contrive relief vasi univáran of univeries, a bit) Ang, organ recital by Mr. have their - Congress, and they in For some years äffar the for him as Americans may
of dust, ip, a, galaxy, which is "bitt, Faderick Mason, A. R. O. 02 thats Congress elect the national these demands were met, but the
dreds of
L.T.C.L., assisted by the Cathedral chiefs, and, then those national) strannous advertising" necessary, work put upon the one of
be held at St. John's chiefs (really the national directors which has accompanie President of the United States
ižišdral bu "Priday, hext, at 520 of industry, you may day; you may ment during the recent, past will remain an intressing and al- most unbearable, burden aidant. Theodore once heard Anything that can
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of the country, You want the and of zo
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