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THE 'CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1934.
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The Darkie Debrett
The negroes of the United Statesi are to have their social register.
The book will have a large darkį blue cover with the title in gold letters. It will contain the names of the first 2500 coloured "socialites" of New York.
MUSSOLINI WIELDS THE AXE
LIVING COSTS REDUCED
BY DEGREES
LOWER WAGES BY ORDER.
(By Beatrice Baskerville.)
A board of five, headed by Mr. WITH a stroke of the pen Signor, Faselst Grand Council, Malcon Walter Clark, a negro
Mussolini has wrought sweep-tents can get no redress there. real estate
Tunely Warning dealer, will sift the sheep from the ing changes in the domestic budgets
of nearly 42,000,000 people. On Above all, there is the Corpora- goats.
There will be more names from April 14, after presiding at a tive State, which now controls the Brooklyn than from Harlem. Be-Cabinet meeting, he issued a de- whole of national activity, from cause of its night-club atmosphere cree whereby employees of all the captain of industry
It has been carefully Harlem is being deserted by the categories lost from 5 to 12 per scavenger. mare conservative elements of hegro cent. of their salaries, and Cabinet planned so as to make the State Ministers 20 per cent. of their the supreme arbiter in matters society.
emoluments.
to the
affecting capital and labour. Birth and a university education,
He has ordered that all land- It makes strikes and lock-outs rather than wealth, will be the main!
who offences. Employers tests for inclusion.
lords shall reduce their rents. by penal Scat singers, for instance, will be 12 per cent. for dwellings and 15 declare a lockout are liable to be accepted on their social qualifica-per cent. for other premises, and tween three and twelve months' reductions into imprisonment, with fines; workers, tions, and not on their earnings or has brought the their notoriety.
force as from April 16. It is be whether "white-collar" employees lieved that wages throughout the or operatives, who go on strike are country will also be cat, so that all able to three months,' their ring- Italy will share in his effort to lenders to a maximum of two years* A debating team of American stem the tide of a growing bud-imprisonment plus fines
When the cuts were decreed in students, no fewer than two strong, getary deficit. has arrived in England.
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Rah! Rab! Rah!
It is interesting to watch this 1930 the bank clerks who rebelled This influx of orators is due to experiment in unorthodox econo-were arrested and their ringlead- from close quarters.ers convicted. They did not serve reciprocal arrangement between mice student organisations on both sides Will he succeed? And will inter-their term; but their experience of the Atlantic.
nal prices respond to his com-was a warning to others.
The publicity given in the Ital- The visitors are Mr. Charles Wisemand? Every Italian is asking
lan Press to a small riot which these questions. and Mr. Delvitt White.
They will tour the country, de-
The majority of Italy's huge took place in the Province of few days ago, when one hating on such controversial topics army of State and para-statal em- Aquila a as "That the only effective answer
ployees, including those in banks, man was killed and several wound- any argument is "Bah!" (assurance offices and large bust-ed by the police, was meant as a warning that the law ness Arms, fall under the reduc-timely disposal. He was anticipating by particularly easy motion to support) tions of 6 and 8 per cent. Their against public meetings will be ri- at least a century a condition of and "That this House asserts its feeling which even our grand-belief in the wisdom of Shakes-wages, paid monthly, range ba-gorously enforced.
Tween 800 and 1,000 lire (£13 6s 8d According to the last census re- children will only experience if peare's advice. "Marry, peace it good fortune waits upon wise bodes and love and quiet life" (not and £16 13s 4d a month). They turne, there are 2,000,000 bachel-
are married men with children. statesmanship for two or three so easy, especially for bachelors).
The China Mail
Hong Kong, Saturday, June 2, 1984.
The Barthou Challenge.
generations. The older method
was to make a careful calculation
of the possible opposing forces,
It
to
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The Real Legion
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ors in Italy, or about 20 per cent. of the total population. Their tax Many Hard Hit
has now been put up 40 per cent., They had
little margin for and is expected to yield £2,000,000- amenities, even before the axe fell sterling. We are not amongst those who and the chances of their being France has at last fled her reply upon them. It is hoped that the Bachelor's Burden are inclined to get warm about brought Into active opposition, to the screen libels on her Foreign present cuts, plus increased re- A bachelor of 30 who is drawing the little breeze at Geneva on the and then to act on the maxim Legion.
venue from the revised bachelor pay equal to £200 a year must now question of whether security or "he shall take who has the power, It is embodied in him called "Lo tax, will effect an economy of be- pay a bachelor tax of £ a year, in disarmament is to come first. and he shall keep who can.
Grand Jeu." which has just been tween £8,000,000 and £9,000,000 addition to 8 per cent. fncome-tax That principle is very deeply in-released in Paris. We do not even regret it. For
sterling. grained, as has already been
and a complementary tax, making "Le Grand Jeu" was directed by the Convention has shown by three members of the Jacques Feyder, the maker
The Decree came as a sudden a total of nearly £22 a year. two years been holding sessions for elabor-League, Japan, Paraguay, and "L'Atlantide" and the first French majority hard. Even the Italian worked out a
of and severe blow. It has hit the enterprising bachelor I know has little sum which ate and polite discussions' in
a Bolivia, to say nothing of the producer to go to Hollywood. housewife, who brings family bud-shows that if the 2,000,000 bache- building specially constructed, seizure of Vilna by Poland and The photography is good, but the geting to a fine art, is faced with a Jora married their wedding feast with Hardonic suggestion, of the indemnify imposed by ulti-story weak.
difficult problem. solid and permanent materials. matum on Greece by Italy.
and setting up of homes would cir- When the bread-winner suffers aculate £34,000,000 in the country. The only result has been to con-is, at any rate, the avowed prin- is not in the same street at "Beau cut upon salary of under £15 a{Therefore, the Government taxes ceal the issues in a mist of bore-ciple of Germany. "As for the Geste" (which WOB banned in month, her bill of fare must consist him as punishment. dom. Behind the smoke-screen League" and Vice-Chancellor von France), or even as "Morocco." largely of dishes which we com- The Benedicts will be made to
Papen a few days ago, "how- of argument there were um-
These films provided colour and prehensively call macaroni, or of pay. Some time ago, in an Um- hatreds for which days it is only competent to romance in a form which Sidi-Bel-potatoes and the cheaper vegeta-brian town, I noticed a number of bitions and
deal with opium and the white Abbes would not have recognised, bles and green salads, generously well-worn men have fought and died, and slave traffic." The Arms Em-but which appealed instantly to dressed with olive oil.
bicycles propped would fight and die again. How barge is an example of what Sydenham and Seattle.
Food against a wall in one of the rooms could anyone suppose that solu- might be done in
prices are higher than in England, in the Municipal Hall. cases of tions would be found without greater importance than the two
and certain items, such as sugar, "Ah, we have seized those things States. some dust and heat? When men South American
Your Daily Smile! which is fourteen pence a pound, from bachelors who have not paid begin to quarrel in an argument technique of increasing pressure
butter and coffee, are almost pro- their tax!" an official explained. Father (at don's twenty-first jhibitive for people earning these Are people grumbling about the it is a sign that they have got to could be developed. But in the
cuts? Of course they are. But a grips with something real. background there must always be birthday party): "You're now of salaries.
It is evident, therefore, that little murmuring does no harm. There are two big questions some possibility of war to en-age and ought to help me a little."
force a kanction as the ultima Son: "Yes, Dad. What can 12 per cent. reduction in rents and when the cost of living is for- that will have to be settled be ratio. We must accept the obli- do for you?"
was the necessary corollary to re-ced down it will subside. But
cause
A
As screen drama "Le Grand Jeu”
continual postponementgation or else abandon the Father: "You might pay the duction in salaries. Otherwise the here Mussolint faces a more for-
has become the most dangerous League to the sphere prescribed last three instalments on your per-landlords, whether princely owners midable task than applying the policy of all. They are not to be by Vice-Chancellor von Papėn. ambulator." dismissed lightly because so far
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SIR PHILIP GAME'S CONFESSION
of large estates or people who axe to employees and landlords. have farvested their savings in two He must so adjust internal prices as England is concerned any Gov-ther the English people will con
fats, or the State-controlled co- that national health and content ernment decision not thoroughly sent to tie its hands. Our tradi- A man for whom the police had operative building societies Quan-is ensured. understood and accepted by the tion in that a free right of decision been searching for two years has ced by the banks, would have
(Continued on Page 13). people would be worse than any must be reserved for Parliament been arrested in a showground. celved no rent at all within a few!
The up to the very last minute. For-That makes it a fair cop.
weeks' time; and discontent would national "yes" or "no."
tunately there is a National Gov- reason is that it would be impos-ernment in office, and the alterna-
have grown to troublesome pro-i Ganster's Wife: "How sible for England to fight with- tive of a long-term policy has a would it cost me to divorce my
Force If Needed out the support of national opin chance of being considered. husband?"
Wants To Be Mistaken. ion, and the European Continent Going back to the year 1914,
Therefore the Decree includes Chicago Lawyer: "About two model tenements and workmen's will not begin to settle down which offers the only modern hundred dollars."
For Gardener. dwellings, which was not the case) until it is definitely known in analogy worth studying, it is
Gangster's Wife: "Two hundred in 1930. It warns landlords that. express terms on what occasions clear that the Parliamentary free dollars! Why, I could get him shot police measures
SIMPLE LIFE IS BEST will be taken England will be ready to fight right of decision never existed for twenty-five"
against them if they fall to comply!
Sydney, N.S.W. without negotiation or delay Quite apart from treaty obliga-
with its terms.
The Governor (Sir Philip which in the next war might be tions with Belgium, the Govern-
New Tram Conductor (inte shop ment had encouraged France to
Not only that, Gen. Starace, Se-Game), when opening the exhibi remove her fleet to the Mediter-assistant): "By Jove, I'm sellingcretary of the Fascist party, tion of the Royal Horticultural There is not really any para-ranean, and we were bound to nice' lot of those two-penny seccabled orders to his federal secre- Society revealed that he has a dox. We all want peace; but we prevent the German fleet from tions, madam-they go extremely taries in Italy and the Colonies to simple ambition-he wants to lay down very precise rules for attacking the Northern shores well"
report each case of rebellios of the put on old clothes and be mis- landlords. our police not only as to when of France. Put plainly, the Gov-
Fascists are threaten- taken for the gardener by visi-· · they must not use their tran-ernment had taken up a long- Snip: "I see Brown's got a
ed with expulsion from the party. tors who want to be shown This entails the loss of privileges, round. cheons, but when they must. term policy which they were motor-car." If the League of Nations is to do afraid or at any rate failed to Snap: Yes, his rich uncle gave any good work at all it must to explain to Parliament..
consequent confusion, some degree introduce a state of and delay combined all the pos-all the money he had into it."
waste, Saip: "Why, he told me he put affairs which makes the analogy sible disadvantages of all the Snap: "He did. He bought five of. efvil life more appropriate possible policies. What holds bob's worth of petrol for it."!! than it is at present to the chaos the British Government back is
The that the Dominions take the)
fatal.
of international relations.
The it to him."
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and makes it hard to get eviction "There would be some enjoy.. orders against defaulting tenants.ment in that kind of work" he. "I am a keen · lover · of Bread-winners who were forced Baldr
to buy flats or shops during the flowers, but I do not get many house famine are doubly hit by chances of doing work in the the Decrea Rent reduction does | "garden,” not benefit them; the capital valus "We are a race of garden- of their homes has depreciated lovers, "Sir Philip Game added. first big question is, therefore, American view of European en the doctor recommended.".
Friend: "Fresh air? Is that all considerably within the past "Every nation has its own type how are we to make the League tanglements.. Frank exchange of
three years. Are they to get a ra-of garden. I like the English Patient: "I guess he knew that bats on taxes? The Decree does gardens better than those of
not say so,
Italy, Holland, France or Ger- The Government is better. equip many. Ours are more restful. by the analogy of the Supreme promises on details only amount Wife: "You are no man--other ped to enforce the Decree than it more beautiful. If I may be bold Court of the United States to the old drift into circum- men go through fire for their was when it made the cuta in enough to say to, there is great which, as he said, was always stances in which we find that the wives.
1027 and 1980. The Chamber of scope for landscape gardening in obeyed by the constituent States decisions have been made by Husband: "I daren't and you Deputies is entirely composed of and around Sydney. There is although it had no force at its other people.
Iknow it. I wear celluloid collara," men chosen or approved by the room for better work"---Reuter-
an effective force for peace? views and public discussion Is
President Wilson was obsessed the only method that suits our was all I could afford to pay for." institutions, Makeshift com-|
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