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CANADA AND TITLES. 'THEIR ABSENCE À HANDICAP.
THE IRISH TAX ON BACHELORS."
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 30TH, 1926/
A Canadian correspondent writing in WHAT THE FREE STATE PROPOSALS
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the London Observer says:
Some eight years" ngo the Canadian | ENCOURAGËMENT TO BENEDICK. Parliament adopted a resolution depre- eating the conferment of titular distinc. tions upon residents of, the Dominion. It goes almost without saying that His Majesty's advisers at once accepted that view, and no hereditary or other titles have since been affered to Capadians. Within the last week or two, towever, 2 rather lively discussion upon the subject has again been aroused among Canadians on both sides of the Atlantic.
A Mr. Stephen Gwyan writing in London paper saya :--
The discussion has been provoked by some remarks from Mr. J. McKinnon,
an ox-President of the Canadian Manufac
For the last two turers' Aleciation. years ir, MeKinnon has held the other of Director of Canadian Exhibits at the British Empire Exhibition, and has just returned to Canada or
completion
those duties. While freely admitting that Canadian industry is likely to benefit largely from the display which was staged on its behalf at Wembley, Mr. McKinnon also expresses the opinion that "Canada is seriously handicapped in Great Britain hy the lack of titled Canadians.'
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Critics of the Free State have praised blamed it (according to their disposi tion) for putting & tax on bachelors. Happily or unhappily, this is not exact, The le imposed applies only to the Civil Service, and not universally to the Civil Servies (at all events, not yet); and it would more correctly be described as offering a premium on marriage than imposing a tax on celibacy.
COUNTRY HOUSE FIRËS IN ENGLAND.
THE STRANGE RUN OF THÈM. Nine or ten country houses have been destroyed by fire in England since the beginning of the year. The recent annals of insurance may be searched in vain for such a series of country house fires within so short a period, says the Daily Mail which proceeds to say --
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CHAOTIC GAMING LAWS.
BY A BARRISTER IN "THE DAILY MAIL"] Everybody knows that our statutes as to gaming and betting are in a state of chaos.
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Most whist drives, and certainly all those for subscriptions, are illegal Se are public sweepstakes on horse races and almost certainly private ones, also. Occasionally fantastic surprises emerge from the chaos,.. na: when betting wins paid by cheque were found to be recover- (but was not) entitled An Act to able and a statute which might have been Relieve Winders of Beta was passed. No judge has ventured to say exactly when and where and how cards may law- fully be played for money, except that a a private game in a private room. licensed victualler must not allow oven
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It is natural that the rapid recurrence of these fires should cause anxiety. The loss of fine old houses, many of which contain art treasures, is a series matter to the nation. It is true that not all the houses which have recently been destroy ed are architecturally interesting and beautiful, and in some of them the con- value. But the total number of old houses tents have been of no special aesthetic is limited, and the casualties among them
The reason for the confusion may of recent years have been peculiarly heavy.
The far-fetched suggestion has been easily be stated. The law is contained in
Henry VIII. onwards, passed O evidence in plotting Communists. made that these fires are the work of a number of statutes from the reign of various motives, and do not fit the needs support of this theory there is so far.none at all, nor can it be considered at all of the time. The more modern legisla probable. The more reasonable view is ion is on the whole framed to discour are gambling, but many of the old laws that the fires are due to the general in of pay. But the Dail was not asked introduction of modern amenities, such as against lotterita and sweepstakes were merely passed to stifle competition with advaner to decide that a married Civilcentral heating, into old houses.
which Government ventures, in One probable cause is a defective flue the Servant should be paid more than an E- married one for performing the same or an old beam in the chimney. When trustees were actually allowed to invest. duties. Mr. Blythe or his department central heating is introduced, the intense And while a whist drive is unlawful, settled that.
heat which is generated is dangerous there is no veto on heavy "gambling in where the brick or stone work is cot in shares or even the necessities of life. good condition. Cracked hearthstones are another well-known source of risk, and yet another is to be found in unswept or too. rarely swept chimneys.
Let us Erst get the facts. This is a question of administrative act, not of legislation. When the salaries paid come before the Dail to be voted, it will be open to members to propose a reduction, because there is a differentiated system
an
This principal of differentiated pay, His two years' experience at Wembley and in Great Britain generally leads Mr. which is an Irish innovation. hen
the British introduced last December, when McKinnon to the belief that public is at a loss to understand why examination was held to all 100 vacan. Those who Canada; steeped in British traditic, the ches in the clerical grade.
conditions. keystone of the Empire, and a most pro-entered had to face two
Be First. if
auto women, they would gressive country, rejects titles."
on argues that business is transacted at uncial matically forfeit their positions
If it happens that marrying. This was not new. Secondly, Robert Macdonald, of Canada, and Sir if men, they must accept the they or semi-social affairs Robert Macdonald, of Australia,
as a woman, unless and until they mar
The results of this examination there, it is the titled visitor from Austrail. lia who receives the place of honour.""
It is worth regailing one or two points have not yet been published, so that there is not yet instance of differentiated concerning th. imposition by Canada ef
once, since the candidates in this class itahan upon tities. The Parliament and there is not likely to be ut at Ottawa had discussed the matter inter-
range from seventeen to nineteen. A mittently over 3 long period. In 192further competition for vacancies in the "Apprehension arose among certa junior executive grade (next above the Canadians as to what might happen clerical) has been announced, with the same conditions. Marriage allowance the close of the war, when there was at least a possibility that hereditary and
These anomalies are unjust, and new.
our system of government has so far fail- ed. The matter in. of course, far 100 important for a private member's Bill. Therefore the Government should take it up.
statutes are required. Here, however,
Rut every politician knows that a Government with the moral courage to tackle the problem would not gain a single voce by it, and would assuredly lose thousands. So far, as it removed re strictions, even absurd ones, ngainst bet- ting and card-playing there would be a loss of the votes of certain serious people "Nonconformist conscience," though they alleged by their opponents" to possess the certainly include a large number of A new Bill Churchmen. So far as limited opportunity for gambling it
It is to be feared that merciless taxa tion has helped to increase the number of fires in country residences. The burdens on the owners are such thas many of them ure. no longer able to keep their houses in perfect order or to refit them with the They have to latest safety appliances jog along and put up with what they have. Again, the dificulty of obtaining servants is such that in many country houses shift has to be made with inadequate house hold stans, and the thorough supervision and attention which would prevent fires In the old days most country houses had are impossible. their own small are brigades. but, possibly
owners, such brigades are rarer now. They could never he regarded as giving perfect security, as a fire brigade, to b efficient, requires to be constantly drilled Otherwise and exercised, so that its appliances ar kept well up to the mark. there is risk of finding at the critical moment that the hose has perished or the engine has broken down. there is usually, too. difficulty in obtaining an adequate supply of water,
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other distinctions might full both to the will be supplemented by a payment for because of the growing poverty of the would be attacked by a number of people Never before was there anything like it, nor are its marvelous properties likely ever to
children, while the children are wader fifteen. But neither marriage allowance the British Empire had recently being nor children's allowance will be permit 'stituted. The Canadian Government of the day was asked to prepare a list ofted to bring the total pay in this grade those it deemed suitable to be incinded above £15. The maximum for a married
man without children is £150. in the Order, but Sir Robert Borden found other urgent engagements which made it impossible for him to 'give con sideration to the subject."
WADE ACCORDING TO NEED.
UGLY DANCING.
AND ITS CAUSE.
THE PRESENT ATTITUDE The resolution in the Ottawa Parlin ment which deprecated the conferment of titles upon Canadians was submitted by Mr. W. F. Nikle, a Conservative. It was supported by the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier, leader of the Opponition, by the Hon. Newton Rowell, a Conservative Minister, hy the Hon. Emest Lapointe, who until place is in your home and if she has London paper says
few days ago was leading the present Liberal Ministry, pending the return fo Parliament of Mr. Mackenzie King, and
One may fairly call this whole plan a sort of paternalism. Work is to be re- manerated. beyond a certain minimum is equally wage, according to the needs of the worker. Man or wanan eligible for entry to either grade, and But the moment a for promotion in the grade or from one. grade to another. woman marries, Mr. Blythe paternally says to her, "My dear young lady, your had considerable service be gives here a substantial wedding gift-which, if she has had twelve years, service, my qua as even a amendment the young man marries, Mr. Blythe, for the abolitiet of existing titles, but again paternal, says, by good lad, you this was viewed with generat disfavour will want more; take a rise in your pay because it would have abolished honours and here is a cheque for the difference anted to Canada's brave men in the between what you got last year and your War. "Eventually the whole matter, was
Thus, although the clever unmarried referred to a committee, which made re commendations considerably in advance man may pasa over the bead of his mar of the proposals submitted in the House. ried colleague, there will be a period in and these were finally adopted. Nothing which the admittedly less eficient is re- was done, however, to prevent customary ceiving higher pay because, being a recognition of services rendered in war family man, he needs it. time
parties. Prominent members of both year's pay, On, the other hand, when
by other
A COOK'S LIBEL' ACTION. INTERESTING KARACHI SUIT.
new rate.'
one
Further, the scheme disposes of women's grievance. There is not rate of pay for men and another for women, but one' rate for the married and another for the single. The women enn. not be in the married class.
+PROMOTING MARRIAGE,
Probably also this combination of even-handed justice as between the sexes, land benevolent differentiation as between
married and unmarried, works cheaper for the State than the old system.
Mr. 11. St. John Rumsey, M.A., author of "Ballroom Dancing." writing in a
There are unnustakable signs that the public has tired of the foxtrot and is asking for a change.
As a matter of fact the fox trot as usually played and danced would be more accurately described as a one-step. The true fox-trot can only be danced to a band playing at about 40 bars to the mirnte. if the tempo is raised to a2 only the most agile of the experts can keep to the fox- trot rhythm, and it the speed is further increased it becomes useless to attempt a At the present time the aver fox-trot age speed is nearly 60-the correct tempo not of the fox-trot but of the one-step.
As long as bands play at this speed only three coursen are open. The first is to do a "quick-trat," invented by the teachers when the craze for speed began. This is a very limited dance, consisting of the old chase movement, sideway steps and foot twisting. Only a very few of the experts can dance it well; the attempts of, the average dancer are a most unpleasing spectacles
An interesting point in respect of the law of libel was decided in the Judicial Commissioner's Court, Karachi, on the 17th March, in which a epok sued his former muster for defamation, writes the Karachi correspondent of the Time of Indu.. Thomas Travas was for some But one thing is clear. It will promote and ao am forced to dance one-step,
out
employed in the Chartered Bank of India, Karachi Branch, und with the master there were also two other Euro- peans living. It was the practice for Travas to incur expenditure on bazaar articles required for the chumtaery and subsequently put in a bill for payment. Seven months passed after Travasis en conditions are try into service, and on the 23rd Decem-highest grade the Junior Administra- ber last he put in a bill for Rs. 1-2 due tive. to him on the previous day's purchases. The master, it was stated, declined to meet it. Travas, therefore, failed to pre-. pare dinner for the Sahebs that night. They got annoyed at the cook's behaviour and dismissed him.
marriage in the service. If a gentleman knows that by wedding a lady who works in the same room he will increase his pay, perhaps by £50, and receive cheque in addition for 350, while she re- tires with a wedding present of £100 or 80, he is likely to become a Benedick.
It is not yet decided whether similar to be applied in the
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The next day Travas went to Mr. Sim at the Bank and asked for the return of ten "chits he had deposited with him while joining service, the "chits" being testimonials given to him by his former employers. Mr. Sim, it is said, after consulting his friends, wrote an endorse ment on the back of every one of the chita" that the bearer had been in their service for seven months, had been dismissed as he demanded Rs. 1-2 on "book account," and "he "is good .cook."
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Most good dancers who can foxtrot, waltz, and tango when the tempo of the music allows them to do so know too much to murder the fox-trot hy rushing,
fox-trot played at one-step tempo. They at any rate achieve a neat and controlled dance movement, but the one-step allows Do variation in its monotonous rhythms. The speed is just enough to make the dance tiring.
The third and last course is open to the dancers who are content to get round."" and that is just what they do, by the simplest of methods-they walk! It is this walking which calls forth the dis- paraging remarks from dancers of a pre- vious generation who could and did waltz: Walking on a ballroom floor can never be an inspiring sight.
The obvious remedy is a return to fox- Writing to London paper from Can-trot tempo. Even a few numbers played ford, British Columbia, a pioneer settler (Mr. T, R. Hardman) says:
I have seen in the English Presa many different theories as to the secrets of que- cess in the Dominions. May I give mine 1 1 have been through the mill as a pioneer of Manitoba in 1582 and of Van- couver in 1887, and with my Tate wife founded the rettlement of Canford (B.C.) in 1903, hewing our home out of the primeval forest and weaving romance with adventure.
This experience has taught me that the greatest asset of an Empire builder is a goal wife. Alen developing a new land deed as wives women of the best and truest steel in temper and Joyalty of
Travas did not understand the menn ing of the endorsement. In the course of a search for fresh employment he went to two local European hotels and at last to a gentleman by name Mr. Stubbs, who purpose," after a perusal of the endorsement told. Travas not to show the "chite" to pro spective employers as the endorsement
would do him no good whatsoever was ordered to be awarded as compensa Travas went to a lawyer, who advised tion to the complainant.
of Karachi.
to the tempo prevailing two or three years ago, when ballroom dancing was at its best, would give dancers a chance to prac tise a dance with infinite possibilities in steps and rhythm.
MEXICO'S "DIVORCE MILL."
DECLARED ILLEGAL.
The Mexican Supreme Court has decided that divorce decrees in Yucates are in- constitutional because they do not comply with Mexican Inw
The decision came as a result of a wife's appeal. She awoke one morning to find herself divorced without knowing that a suit had been instituted. The Supreme Court decided that she was not divorced at all, since testimony for both sides must be heard.
In Yucatan, divorces could be obtained
On appeal, the Judicial Commissioner, on the while you wait and no questions
him to file a criminal suit for defamation, Mr. C. A. Kincaid hold that the en-asked principle for £180, and thousands against Mr. Sim, which was duly launchdorseinent had been made in good faith, of Americans are said to have resorted to ed in the court of the city magistrate and after a discussion of the law bearing the court
on the subject came to the conclusion It is said that an international divorce that for the publication of the endorse ring which has been operating all through ment which constituted the essence of the United States collected £18,000, from libel, Travas had to thank himself, and Americans for obtaining divorces in the appellant, Mr. Sim, not being res Yucatan, which are now declared invalid.
The money, therefore, has been wasted ponsible for the publication, did not com-
Central News, mit any crime in the eyes of the law; a
After the case was beard, the Maris. trate fined Mr. Bim Rs. 100, holding that in writing what be had done at the back of the chits he made libellous allege tions and the ples of good faith could not be sustained. The fine when paid (Continued ai foot of next Column)
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to mere racecourse pests and sharpers. And since no Government likes to face loss of votes for an unappreciated re form, nothing is done.
main lines
Sonner or later, however, some Govern- ment will have to net. Why not let the leaders of the three parties agree on the "Any game played for money in private Hours should be legalised, saving only for the habitual play which now renders particular premises a gaming house" Whist drives and sweepstakes should be licensed ander rules of common sense framed to allow innocent recreation and forbid heavy play.
Street betting is more controversial, but if it cannot be prevented (which seems to be the case) it should be legalis- ed and regulated, and no doubt taxed,
that can be done profitably. Certain laws already exist punishing those who gamble at the expense of their creditors, and perhaps they should be strengthened. One would like to see a law punishing a man with a wife and family who caus ed them to suffer by squandering his (Continued on next column.)
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