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notable for the ease with which
trial of Arnold Spencer he beat the Townsend candidate.
and
This was Mr. Byron Defenbach, who, as a "Townsend-Republican."
Walter Whitehead. respectively proprietor printer of the newspaper Fascist, ended in the accused Promised to bring Idaho voters pensions of $40 a month. Now being found guilty on two!
counts, namely, conspiring to campaign Mr. Borah will be able IST
arose out
Leese was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and!
was fined Whithead
£20. Reuter.
TRIBUTES PAID MR. WILSON
Two Presentations
DESIGNS ALTERNATE
(By Frank L. Wilson)
was
Carlos (King that he is out of the Presidential CPANISH stamps have taken throne of Don
on a new significance for Carlos VII). print and publish libellous and to concentrate on getting himself philatelists with the bitter out-
Peace Settled scandalous statements, and
¡returned once again as Senator break of a fresh civil war in Later in 1875 Alfonso XII. Hong Kong, Tresday, Sept. 22, 1936. printing libellous statements in.
that turbulent land. For inson of Isabella, was proclaimed order to effect { public for Idaho.
issues. which The primary is mischief. The case
a preliminary these
hare King, and peace settled for a with American elections at changed
the stage in
The various time on the weary land. of anti-Jewish matter published which the parties decide by vote changes in Government, may King's portrait is shown on the in the paper on August 15. who shall be their candidates. be read much of the history stamps of that year. Alfonso If Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
Mr. Borah has been connected leading up to the present fierce died 10 years later. and his
daughter. shek does absolutely nothing
with Idaho se long-he has re-struggle between the Leftist oldest
Mercedes. else for his country for the rest!
presented it at Washington for 29 Government and the Fascist ascended the throne. Her rule of his life, he will still have
iyears that it is often believed to Government.
was temporary, however, for in learned the solemn gratitude of
be his hor “ate. This is not so. Stamps were first issued in 1886 a posthumous son his countrymen for what he
He was born in Illinois. As Spain in 1850, when the king-born to the mother Queen.
This was Alfonso XII has already accomplished in
a boy he loaged to be an actor dom was ruled over by a 20- Kwangtung. Outside observers
and nearly bined 3 touring rear-old Queen, Isabella whose rule was not interrupted are inclined to be a little scep-
Shakespeare company. Instead These first stamps pictured until the day of his abdication. tical about campaigns of puri-
Washington has been
Portraits of Alfonso the scene the young ruler in so unflatter-in 1931. ty. New Life Movements and
of his dramatic successes
ing a way that she showed her XII appear on the regular pos- the like. principally because in.
displeasure in unmistakable tage stamps, of Spain from 1889 A very pleasant function took!
terms. the past they have paid lip place at the offices of Newspaper SOBRIETT THE BEST POLICY
Within the next few until 1931, and follow his deve- service to the ideals theyre Enterprise
In the nineties Mr. Borah set years several new issues were!lopment and growth. The 1889 Limited yesterday presented but precious little
jout for the Paciãc coast to prac-designed in an effort to please issue portrays him at the age the when Mr. D. C. Wilson. more. The revolution was en Managing Director.
tise as a lawyer." By the time befher.
of 3, the 1898 Colonial issues was the re- gineered by a few discerning cipient of handsome gift from reached Idaho his funds Events of the young Queen's at the age of 12, the 1902 issue intellectuals because they were the Staf on the occasion of his early exhausted.
reign gave rise to a series of at the age of 16, the 1909 issue able to see, in proper perspec departure for England after 11
To pass the time he went into revolts, culminating in a terri-at the age of 34 and the 1931 tive. just what the people of
the law courts at Boise. the fe struggle in 1868, when the issue at 44. successive years in the Colony. China were being served with Later in the evening members capital, to watch bow legal pro royal forces were defeated. jceedings were carried out in the Isabella fled the country and a
then new State. The lawyer republic was set up.
under their supine and corrupt monarchy. The whole ordeal
¦
Made
of the Hong Kong Heriot
Club
were
of the revolution was to frea Sathered at the Gloucester Hotel, conducting the first case was, he
the people from a most oppres sive roke and introduce some elementary principles of demo- cracy into the Chinese body
where a second presentation was made to Mr. Wilson.
one of the founder members of the Club.
politic. The history of China EXPLANATION
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
from that time has belied, and continues to belie. in some. instances, all the pious aspira-¡ tions of the makers of the re- volution. In all too many! instances we have seen simply jone set of oppressors substitut-į ȚEVNA Azef, Russian
led for another.
War lords are JE
conspirator, lies buried still rampant in certain parts the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Ber-
"Use Of The People”
Republican Stamps
The last of the stamps issued which bear his portrait is the 10-peso stamp of the Spanish- could see, far from sober.
American Union series, issued Deciding that if a drunken lay-
The new republic promptly in connection with the exposi- yer could make good a sober one had all the then-current stamps tion at Seville in 1931. This was bound to be a great success, over-printed "Habilitado por la stamp portrays both the King Mr. Borah stayed there and pro- Nacion" (for the use of the and his Queen, Victoria ved his point..
ber
people). and in 1870 brought | Eugenia
in most instances: but the number 446. Azeff was for many to him," declares a writer. The wise he lacked political support and became better · organised
lic
out the first issue of republic On April 14, 1931, the Repub- Your Daily Smile!
stamps. But the issue was lican party, after 55 years of short lived, for in 1872 the inactivity, again won the day; The Nameless Grave Persia, we are told, is to reorganise Royalists set on the Spanish the third republic was institut- its aerial forces. It is understood throne Amadeo of Savoy, second ed, and Don Alfonso went into that all privately-owned magic car- arch-
As before, all current pets will now be taken over by the son of Victor Emmanuel II of exile. in
military authorities.
Italy, and stamps bearing his stamps were overprinted "Re- likeness were promptly issued. publica" but the government of the country, though in fair-lin, but his name does not appear "It is ridiculous for a woman to ness it must be admitted that on the gravestone over his tomb, choose a Christmas present for
The new King" endeavoured being unsettled, each district jeven their claws have been cut The name is concealed under the husband and then have the bill set to serve the country well but overprinted its own stamps.
Later in 1931 the new repub- A republi country as a whole still groans years in the pay of the
wife always sees to it that she gets abdicated in 1874. Czarist under its most
the amount in cash from him before-can issue of that year showed and more centralised Stamps pernicious police, to whom he betrayed his hand.
were then over-printed "Repub- Jan allegorical design of !burden: the principle of friends in the revolutionary move-
lica Espanola," and toward the "Justice." "squeeze" and the personal ment which he was supposed to St. Louis Star Times: Another
end of the year special issues aggrandisement of officials in the heading. By the time
Carlist, stamps: made their were printed bearing the in- are get- authority..
was finally convicted of being a tize these days is that vegetables are appearance in 1874 and 1875, seription of the new republic.
signalising the accession to the The Generalissima. however, traitor, he had sent hundreds of too high to be throwing around. has been as good as his word his own friends to the gallows. in at least one direction since He escaped and lived in obscurity he started to clean-up the pro-in Berlin where be died in 1918. vince of Kwangtung. The He was so detested that his family prohibition against gambling decided to place a number instead
Azeff break amateur performers
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good authority, is not just a his outraged comrades vent their pious hope but a concrete reali-resentment upon the cemetery. ty. As far as opiam is con-i
cerned. it is recognised that the turning enormous profits to its country has a long way yet to organisers, and trading ΟΠ go before it can be claimed that every human frailty and weak- success has attended theness. That is a filthy business efforts of those in authority to for which there is no possible stamp out the pernicious drug excuse. In his zeal the Genera- Opium-addicts are not cured in fissimo appears to have gone a day; indeed, if needless suf-too far in the other direction. fering is to be avoided, it is If four friends gather for a obligatory that their cure shall game of mah jongg there is no be pursued over a sufficient particularly heinous offence period of time to allow the against morals in that, so long craving to be gradually stamp as they keep within limits ed out. The authorities are which all can reasonably afford. therefore right in treating this The new regulations might well matter as a long-term effort, be amended to allow mah jongg and their only practical method to be played among private of accomplishing what they people, and nobody would really have set out to do is to decree be a penny the worse. But the the gradual, systematic sup-strict prohibition of organised pression of the opium traffic, gambling for private profit is starting from the beginning: ato be thoroughly commended prohibition on the growing of from every possible viewpoint. opium Only by the eradica-The establishment at Shum tion of the poppy entirely and Chun was a festering sore. by the sternest methods of sup- Tremendous profits were made pression of the illicit traffic can by a cynical exploitation of the a beginning be made; only thus weaknesses of human nature, can it be hoped that new addicts and although a big revenue was will not be created, so
that derived
from this traffic in when the present generation of human souls it was all tainted addicts is either cured or dies money, none of it fit to touch out by itself, the people can with a bargepole. The Genera start with a clean slate.
lissimo has been firm and But gambling is in an en-thorough in dealing with this tirely different category.problem. Gambling has been Opinions will differ, as they prohibited by decree, and pro- always have done, about the hibited it has been from the ethics of gambling.. For our beginning of this month. It part we do not believe that a is to be hoped that it will re- mild gamble, for stakes which main so. Every well-wisher of one can easily afford, is such a the country at large will sup- mortal sin as some earnest port the authorities to the very people would make out. But limit of his powers in seeing there can bé no two opinions that the old conditions. never about the aspect of gambling return; and meanwhile Genera-
Phone: that was visible in all its hate-lissimo Chiang Kai-shek de- fulness in the province of serves the sincere thanks of Kwangtung until three weeks all classes of the community for azo: the system of organised what he has accomplished gambling on a large scale, re-lalready in this direction.
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“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley
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