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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1936
The China Mail
Ninety-first-Year of Publicatch-
34 Wyndham Street, Hong Kong, Telephone 20022. London Office:
7. Garrick Street, London, WC2
Notice To Contributors.
MADAME CHIANG FOR CANTON
Passage Cancelled
On Monday
Madame Chiang Kai Shek who
has been spending a holiday in Hong Kong, was reported to have
Here
There and Everywhere
All communications intended for made reservations to leave for FLYING DOWN TO RENO publication should be address to Canton by the 5.5. Tai Shar
An interesting example of the Editor, and be accompanied by Monday, but the party cancelled American resourcefulness in the the Writer's Name and Address their reservations at the last never-ending quest not necessarily for insertion, but minute, as a guarantee of good faith
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A Sick World, My Masters
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for fresh sources of revenue has come to A leaflet has been issued Friends of Mrs. Chiang said that light. she might be leaving by train by United Air Lines, setting forth la truly royal offer to those con- yesterday or to-day.
more
2.3.
aero-
The
WAR BETWEEN SEXES IS FUTILE
WOMAN HAS HER PLACE
IN THE WORLD.
CO-OPERATION WITH OPPOSITE SEX DESIRABLE AND NECESSARY
(By Millicent Taylor)
NOMETIME, when you are need for consistently working
A Canton report, however, "says templating marriage. The leaflet un-is headed "Come to Reno to be that if there are no
the front cover favourable Sino-Japanese develop-married," and ments, Marshal Chiang Kai-shex shows Cupid astride
In spite of its reputation, Reno Hong Kong. Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1935 may stay in Canton for another plane.
month personally to supervise the rehabilitation in both Kwangtung is not exclusively a place where as you'll tell them this" be channels through which all said, finging himself into a women may have equal oppor
in business chair beside my office desk. tunities with men and Kwangs, now that Kwangsi marriages come to an end. has agreed to submit to the Nan- divorced parties very frequently that in trying to win what and professional life.
In winning a place in the they call women's rights' they king terms. As Kwangsi bas pro-marry again before leaving.
United Air Lines is trying to don't need to fight us men soworld. in fact, trying to win mised to hand over its political, the financial and Kuomintang affairs emphasise this side of Reno hard, as if we were out to keep anything against what seems The settlement of Kwangsi imbroglio will be to Nanking, it will be necessary persuading Americans everywhere heartily welcomed, no less by for the Generalissimo to make ato go there for what in many the people of China at large number of new appointments for cases as American statistica than by the unfortunate people the reorganised Kwangsi depart show-may prove to be only the of the province who would have ments. been heavily involved if thei dispute had been carried to the extent of a showdown implying] the use of force. Because, in these days of "civilisation," it: is the plain man who is con! cerned, just as much as the pro- fessional soldier. Perhaps more so, in fact: because while the professional soldier is at least Lee Chi Tak, unemployed, partially equipped to defend was this morning sentenced to: himself and may be presumed six months' hard labour by Mr. to have chosen to enter the pro- S. F. Balfour at the Central fession he graces, the civilian Magistracy for possession of communities nowadays, in 17,400 heroin pills at No. 19,
HEROIN PILLS FOUND Unemployed Gets Six Months
Erst of a series of visits.
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them down. Some of the busi-to be conservatism. Iszy think ess women one meets seem to ing, or preindice. it is easy to shoulders." He had evidently mass attitudes of mind upon
around with chips on their set pugnacious, to pin sluggis just had an encounter. "Per persons. in short "to go around haps you can help them realise," with the proverbial chip on ALL-EXPENSE WEDDING
he went on, "that most mentore's shoulder. Thus, under The company offers two sets of
to-day, in the United States at the standard of being much in irates. One covers the cost of
least, accept the fact that earnest about "equality." some transport for two people from
women have to earn their liv-of us get into the way of think- anywhere to Reno and back again, ing, and that they have a right ing that all men are obstacles to the cost of the marriage licence to earn it under fair conditions, our progress. jand the minister's fee.
Women don't need to feel that
The other is worded as follows: we are their enemies. Perhaps •
breakfast and return.
Wasteful Sex War.
We
If you prefer to remain over in sometime you'll tell them this?" Sex war leads only to con- Reno, we will provide an all-ex-
It is helpful. isn't it, to hear fusion and darkness. pense wedding, including round trips to and from fields, sir fares, a man's side of it? And I had know, of course, that problems marriage licence, minister, wedding to admit that he was right. are not solved in strife and dis- dinner (for two), lovely hotel room, <uppose in trying to put cord. We who so earnestly The prices quoted for the first through any progressive step seek international peace can methods, in these times of the bombing of Spring Garden Lane on Sep- plan include $12 from San Fran- there is a tendency on the part apply the same cities, the use of poison-gas and tember 1.
Revenue Officer Ward said cisco, £117 from New York, and of some of those who work principle, to any other attain- similar elegances of conflict, are
-and where there is intense between men and women, ami- dragged in willy-nilly to suffer that at 4 am that day, while $442 from London. This last in-hardest for it, to feel intensely ment of progress. Tarif walls personal feeling there is likely ed frontiers, suspicion, mis- the tortures of the damned going up the stairs of the house, cludes a crossing of the Atlantie
to be resentment and just interpretations, refusals to The necessity for direct action. which was in total darkness, he in the Hindenburg.
For the all-expense wedding a
conclusions. It is not always negotiate these bring about each therefore, would have implied suddenly saw the door of the
easy to remain dispassionate, no more progress in the har the infliction of needless and flat being opened and defendant trifling £3 is added to
especially when included in the monious evolution of men and the about to enter it. He was ar- these charges. unnecessary suffering on
situation. And most women in women in their world together Was in rested and in a bag he people of Kwangsi, who,
business and professions are than they do in the evolution common with those of the coun-carrying he had 12,000 pills.
included.
of friendly international rela- try at large, have already. On the premises the remainder and defendant:
tions. undergone enough from the were found, machinations of their war-lords claimed these as his.
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Steamer From The Mountains
Your Daily Smile!
of
Mistress: "Come, come, Mary, how! much longer is it going to take you to All that pepper box?"
Mary: Sure, ma'am, and it's me self can't say how long it will take to get all this stuff through the little holes in the top of this thing."
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Angler: tell you it was long. I never saw such a fish!
The Listener:-I believe you
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Pugnacity Easy
I feel that we can afford to Women who do equal work be highly alert on this point. with men, for unequal pay: Sume of the jokes, many of the women who see positions above magazine articles, and an amaz- Ithem handed to men below ing amount of informal conver- them; women who feel they sation throw a subtle influence that could do certain kinds of work on the side of dividing men and
to last them for some time. For the nation at large the fact that civil war has been averted will call forth a general sigh of gratitude. - Not only has the settlement of the dis pute the negative virtue of affording a continuance of pre sent conditions of something like stability, but it also signi- fies another very important j step in the advance towards political homogeneity of what is left of China.
tainous country of Charleston, W. the postal clerk. "It will accomplish and others in similar situations, tween boys and girls. Va by the Ward Engineering more if you stick it on the envelope are the very ones who see the The necessity for political works, on the Kanawha River. cohesion is axiomatic The
Likewise, her sister ship, ultimate form of the Govern-General John M. Hyde. Upon com- ment of the country, at this pletion of the ships, it was found stage of its development, is of that their drafts of 10 feet) secondary importance; whether would not permit them to be democratic government or Apated to the Gulf in low water,
that men do but are not per-women into opposing camps. mitted to prove it; women who We cannot always stop it; but A lady had just purchased a post-lose their jobs, no matter how we can always throw our in- needed, merely because, like fluence on the side of mutual age stamp at a sub-post office.
Must I stick it on myself?" she their brothers, they choose to harmony and understanding be- asked.
get married-all these women tween men and women, also be
THE S. S. General Frank M.
Coxe was built in the moun- Positively not, madam,” replied
the
dictatorship be established is so they were tied to the river bank relatively immaterial. The awaiting the spring high waters. great thing is that political stability shall be established. During the tie-ups.a 4 in. natural somehow, so that the country as line was ingeniously connected can present an united front to to the ships to furnish heat, power the very real menaces which and light
threaten it. All things con-
Įsidered something in a nature
Two cases of enteric fever were!
au-
of a benevolent dictatorship reported to the local Health
thorities during the three days
would perhaps be the best thing ended on Monday.
for the country at large - at
any rate, so far as its politics
are at present constituted so
long as it was both benevolent
and sufficiently a dictatorshiption in terms is fiendishly far- cical, however)-then the use
to be able to claim that it re-of these appalling death-deal-1 presented the solid wishes of the mass of the nation, formu-ing instruments is the absolute lated as they are concentrated Pegation of every decent feel- ing which education and civili- in the policy of one man.
sation have endeavoured to in- With the object-lesson of culcate in the human animal. Spain at hand, there is no need Indeed, the question obtrudes to labour the tragedy of civil itself: how far can we consider -It war. Spain is fighting out its ourselves civilised at all? dispute with the maximum of is true that the mass conscience ferocity. cruelty. lawlessness nowadays is much more con- and destruction. The very cerned than ever before with In the mass ¡latest "benefit" of science, in social problems.
the shape of poison-gas, will we do not tolerate now prac- shortly be used-on the tices which were taken as strength of the same formula matter of course in othe. days. which Italy evoked in the But we welcome, laud' and Abyssinian campaign: as a magnify the wholesale killing, "reprisal" for real or fancied with the worst possible cruel- "atrocities." If the point of ties and barbarities, which war war-that it is the business of represents; we have reduced a belligerent to kill as many of what used to be at least a his opponents as possible in the gentlemanly business to the quickest possible time is lowest possible denomination accepted, then the use of wholesale slaughter of innocents poison-gas, liquid fore and all and such a bath of blood in a the other horrors now available few years as was never seen In these is strictly logical and legiti in centuries before. ¡mate. But if, parallel with circumstances we have no right whatever conscience there may to call ourselves "civilised" still remain in the minds of and there will no doubt one day war-makers, the ides is to kilbe a great reckoning, if the the enemy as humanely as ordinary decencies of behaviour (the very contradic mean, anything at all.
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DR JOHN MANDEVILLE
WALDO OSPOND
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