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The green-coated, tin-sworded Immortals of the French Academy are in hot water again.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1933.
BRITAIN'S MUDDLE OF QUOTAS
STRAIGHTFORWARD TARIFFS WANTED
The Institute of France, in which COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT URGED
the Academy is incorporated, like
the galaxy of minor academies as- sociated with it, derives a large in- come from bequests.
important
(By A. A. B.)
London. I understand £30,000,000 roughly
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the most of sources of income is the beautiful With the biggest Parliamentary stands for 6d. in the income-tax. palace of the princes of Conde at majority since the first Reform Four times that amount could Chantilly, bequeathed to the In-Act, the National Government has easily be obtained by an all-round stitute by the Duc d'Aumale. The failed not only to elicit a spark of tariff, firmly and fairly administer- to produce ed, on all foreign imports, and that condition of the bequest was that enthusiasm, but even
the would enable the Chancellor to re- the revenues of the palace, which is content in any section of
mit 28. from the income-tax. now a much-visited museum, should electorate.
The explanation is obvious. Abolish the quota, with which be distributed among needy intel-
Being composed of men of opposite everybody is disatisfied, and which lectuals.
Last year the Chantilly museum and conflicting political principles, most people don't understand. The made a proft of half a million its policy is confused. The secret working of the quota is admitted- not absti- francs for the Institute. But only of political success is simplicity. ly complicated. Why 12,000 francs were disbursed as If you want to strike the imagina- tute the simplicity of a tarifi for
tion, you must do something that revenue? grants to improverished writers.
But how can a Government that ial, necesssary to our own manU-
Rewards Of Learning
On certain articles of raw mater-
The balance was invested by the is intelligible to all. prudent Immortals in State funds.
M. de Monzie, the Minister of is headed by an international Sofactures, the tariff should be low Education, now challenges the right cialist, dependent on Conservative and flexible. On certain imports, buttressed by two such as the cheaper slave grown of the Institute to hoard its revenues votes, and when so many French writers of schools of Liberals, the one pedan- timber from Russia, which is ne
tically bound to the traditions of cessary to no one except a small distinction are in actual want.
Gladstone and Asquith, the other, group of unconscionable traders the new Liberals, dabbling in left who want to geli coffins and, win- The French Academy, by the way, wing politics-how can such a down-frames at sweater's. prices, enjoys one privilege denied to Bri-composite body produce a simple the tariff should be prohibitive. On tain's learned societies. Its mem- and consistent policy? It can't articles of food and drink, which bera, like the directors of a com-jand the consequence is a muddle are not necessary to anyone, for pany, are paid a small fee for each of quotas instead of straightfor- we can produce all we want to eat attendance at its sessions.
ward tariffs, and a budget balanc- or drink within our Dominions and The fee varies according to the ed by the expedient of increasing. Colonies, the tariff should be high. number of members present. When the taxation of the helpless hun-
I don't want to prevent anyone all the 35 existing Academicians dred thousand who now make the
eating Argentine beef or Danish meet they receive rather less than 20 wheels go round, the present Government has done francs each. But at a recent meet- Why, a child could do that! To Dutch tea; only to make the pro-
bacon, or drinking Chinese in an earnest pursuit of those! BURNS.-On August 9, 1933, at/ends. It is the present Govern- only four members attended, and increase the income tax, sur-tax ducer to pay toll for the entry to when the shining pile of attendance and death duties does not require our markets and make the consum- the General Hospital, Shang- ment that has introduced at tokens was divided between them a statesman. The plain policy of er of these foreign luxuries contri-
dearly beloved Geneva the fruitful principle of the faithful four received the not plusder advocated by Kerensky daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. K. "qualitative" disarmament, and contemptible sum of nearly £2 each. Cripps and the Poplar pantaloon,bute to our revenue. Burns, aged 6 years.
The that has gone beyond all others funeral will took place at the in drawing up the actual draft Bubbling Well Cemetery on Convention now before the Con- ference By its vigorous support Friday, August 11, at 5 p.m.
it has ensured the conclusion of The Raconterror.
The fellow who will insist the Four-Power Pact. It has re- fused to take as the Labour telling you a bad-time story. party demanded-isolated action, involving the danger of war, Life's Ups and Downe.
"How much are your against Japan. As for the
DEATHS.
hai, Evelyn,
The China Mail
Your Daily Smile
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Hong Kong, Wednesday. Aug. 16, 1931. nebulous "principles" which would ments, madem?
Socialist Peace Platitudes.
"From a pound up." "But I am an actor, madam." "Then it's a pound down."
KISSES.
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guide Labour's peace, policy, they are the principles of every Gov- ernment to-day; even the prin- ciple that the private manufac- {ture of arms is a bad thing. That manufacture the next La-A kiss can make the world stand
still, bour Government "will propose" Don't ask me how I know.
Supply And Demand
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But it will be said that if you' good Churchman as he is, would
shut out all these imports our do that for 115.
foreign trade will be ruined: Do I believe that all sensible men-not believe it: England will al- by whom I mean the citizens that ways be a market, what with our on remain after eliminating Poplarism electrical machinery, railway roll- land Bristol brigandage-arejing-stock, woollen and cotton cloths
agreed upon two things: that the and rising motor, exports. {prices of primary commodities:
Help From Colonies apart-should be raised, and that our
national revenue should be in- The increased trade to and from creased to a point that would adjour Crown Colonies will de much mit of a substantial and immediatë to fill up any gap in the foreigners' reduction of direct taxation.
imports.
Mr. Amery is somewhat to blame, and Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lis- The balance between direct and ter is much to blame for allowing indirect taxation should be restor the trade with our far Eastern co- ed, as nearly as may be, to its lonies to droop. Why do we allow
direct taxation, ie, duties of im-cheap teas from Java and Sama- port and excise, has two advant-tra? The Dutch should have been ages over direct taxation: (1) that told that unless they stopped their
of an army of collectors and rubbish prices, we should clap inspectors; (2) that a man can re duties on their tea and spices. They gulate it for himself, according to would soon have found the means his circumstances at the moment of doing so, and our natives and 1st actor: Well, how do you by consuming less, or more, of the planters in Ceylon and Malaya
taxed commodity.
would not now be reduced to beg- II. for instance, the stockbroker |gary..
Since Mr. Arthur Henderson jassumed the position that he now Disarmament Conference, those son, who knows better than most
A kiss can make a flower bloom, who were formerly opposed to men how that proposal has been know this to be so.
received in the past in the coun- Where only thistles grow, him in Britain's domestic politics cils of trade unionism. But that pont ak me how I know theee it collect itself without the agency Asiatics from producing rubber st have been very willing to forget is the most appropriate comment those differences. They have put
Joccupies as Chairman of the to abolish. So Rays Mr. Hender- kiss can make the stars wink out. Hormer proportion of 50, 50. In-the Dutch to flood the market with
out of their minds the fact that upon Mr. Henderson's pamphlet
a whole-that BS
he is still, as for many years he (better. has been, secretary of the Labour party. Unhappily, that fact is
thrust into prominence again by
the pamphlet issued by that
things,
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he knows
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India's Novitiate.
find business, laddie?
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for the farmer has had a bad year, 1 am by no means satisfed that be can diminish his consumption the resources of British Guiana, of drink or tobacco. If, on the which is really the key to Central go. other hand, lie has had a good year South America, and which contains he can open a bottle of champagne hard woods, and alluvial diamond or order a box of his favourite-beds, and gold, and on the upland cigars. And this he can do with- savannas fine pasturage for cattle, out submitting to an inquisitorial are properly looked after by our Facts You Did Not examination of bis accounts by an Colonial Office, with its constantly
|changing Colonial. Secretaries.
(Continued on Page 10)
Know.
water
ofcial.
ROTARY TIFFIN YESTERDAY.
party recently, and written by Among all the able men who usual, you know, old boy. him as secretary. In it he sets serve India to-day, Sir Malcolm forth the party's peace policy, Hailey, Governor of the United Our Borrowing Friends.
Mostly a case of touch and which must, he explains, be made Provinces, fia by common acknow-
most clear to the electors, inasmuch as ledgment the
brilliant "the Labour party hopes soon member of the Indian Civil Ser-Just Now. once more to control the Govern-vice. When in the Assembly he Parless times, ment of the country." It must was its outstanding member, and be said at once that a document his administrative work both in. which is admittedly a Socialist the Punjab and in the province
How is this state of things to be electioneering manifesto ought be now rules has been marked
brought about? There is but onej not to appear over the signature by thoroughness, and certainly
A mesh wire screen has been in-
way of getting round the law of of a public man who holda an by no undue concession to Indian
supply and demand. When there international post that is totally demands. In his declaration at vented to be attached to kitchen
is more of an article produced) divorced from all party considera- Oxford that he is not an advocate sink faucets to prevent
spattering.
įthan in wanted, such as, rubber or tions. Since, however, he is con-of too much caution in granting!
to India he
Itin, the production must be curtail- scious of no impropriety in so self-government
A celluloid disk guard has been led, by careful and scientific reappearing, he must be taken on courageously faces the situation invented to be attached to brushes restriction, until supply and de. Dr. J. M. Henry On Older that footing. It is first to be as those in India know it. The used to paint window sash, base-mand are balanced-approximate- noted that it is the old Mr. tendency to ask an impossible boards and molldings without ly, that is, for complete equipoise Henderson who speaks, with the perfection from India in working smearing adjoining surfaces. old ineffable assurance of his any new scheme of government party's superior quality of is a danger against which Britain Although it is large enough to our Eastern empire by the rubber was yesterday given at the Rotary righteousness. It will, he de- has to be on guard. India will carry 55 passengers a motorbus; clares, be in the power of the make her mistakes as every other built in Holland has the motor rowers with perfect success, until Clab tiffin at the Gloucester Building next Socialist Government "to country has done. She will have section so hinged to the main part Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Amery but by Dr. J. M. Henry, President of
ited in to please Mr. Hoover, who the Canton Rotary Club.. effect a complete revolution in to learn from them and gradual-that is can turn corners easily. wanted cheap rubber for Mr. Ford.
During the course of the address the atmosphere of internationally evolve her constitution to politics." He shows how "er-guard against them What is Studies at lows State College and ordered rubber reftriction to the speaker said: "We live in a tremely grave" is the position desirable is that she shall be able have shown that the operating excess. The consequence was that strange world to-day, and whatever that is to be so magically chang-to go through the period in which pense of an average automobile, in-so much rubber was produced by else is or is not certain, nothing can ed. He sets forth the elements blunders are bound to occur while cluding insurance and depreciation. Asiatics in Java that the rubber be more sure than that a Hong Kong of "the present state of fear and the British element in the Gov-is about 6.4 cents a mile. tension." He even mentions that ernment and in the country re-
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Times Of S. China.
A brilliant address on the History This restriction was practised in of the Older Times of South, Chinn
plantations of Ceylon and Malaya and Canton that know each other were ruined, and £20,000,000 tax more, and hold a certain respect, able revenue was lost. Whatever even regard, one for the other, will
in many cases "Parliamentary mains strong both to help and democracy itself has been dea-correct. That is an argument Select Committee arrives should free traders may say, restriction of mean a happier and more prosperous troyed or severely shaken. A wholly against any undue delay, evoke India co-operation and output was success in our South Chins at least. I believe that there is no more hopeful Socialist Government, presum-How little danger there is that Indian good-will and should con-Eastern and colonial empire, time in advance will be too rapid is made tain the germ of development. "Abolish The Quota”. jably, would lose no
avenne toward, this achievement But how is the other thing need-]than, through Rotary. (Applause). sweetening the international at-plain by the evidence that Sir Sir. Samuel Hoare refuses to as-
Rotarian T. B. Wilson presided, mosphere by protesting vigor-Samuel Hoare gave before the sign any precise interval of timeful to be secured? How i put. ously against the party dictator-India Select Committee. Many to elapse between the setting up clent revenue to be raised to re- and guests welcomed were Hon. Sir. ships set up in other countries of the conditions laid down by of provincial autonomy and the dace the income-tax by, say, 21 Henry Pollock, Rotarians, H. L always excepting that which pre-the White Paper are beyond coming of Federation. The in-A tax of 25 per cent, on the earn-Chang, C. W. Leung, Edward' Shim vails-in-Russia. But apart from Britain's control. Their fulfi-terval depends upon the extent Inge of the clever and successful, and J. C. Huang, all of Canton, that mollifying procedure, it is ment depends both on India and and the rapidity of Indian or on the accumulations of pre- Rotarian A. F. Fischer, Manila, and hard to see what steps a Socialist on world recovery. That very acceptance, which the British vious clever and successful Rotarian Robert Fan Shanghái, Mr. Government could take for peace fact makes it the more necessary Parliament has no intention of traders, is preposterous; and is D. Drummond was welcomed
choking commercial enterprise new member.se and appeasement beyond what that the final plan at which the enforcing.